Zbone's Link
https://www.outdoorlife.com/conservation/velvet-iowa-buck-poached/?utm_term=ODL%20-%20090924&utm_campaign=Outdoor%20Life_Newsletter&utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email
Also I would like to know how they would have saved the deer for evidence. I highly doubt they had a freezer back at the SO big enough for a whole deer.
Even if they just took the hindquarter I doubt that deputy is going to process the deer to salvage the evidence in uniform. I know I sure an hell wouldn't have. Uniforms are expensive, and we had to buy our own.
Also, you cannot just leave it in the yard until game and fish find the time to show up. There are chain of custody issues, etc.
In 28 years never had a case like this, but I would have loved to see the look on my supers face if I would have said, DNR isn't available to handle the case, I am going to load the deer into my car and bring it in to the SO as evidence.
It was years before I knew in WI you could only give car tags out for deer. Any other animal such as turkey, bear, Coyote or deer with velvet antlers had to go through DNR and you had to actually pay for the tag. That may have changed by now, but the only way I learned it was just BS with a DNR warden. They never taught it in the academy.
I will say this, I hope the deputy at least called his super to ask what to do. If he knew he had a crime and the agency responsible for the investigation wasn't available that was at least the minimum he should have done.
I been on scene for hour's with a doa. It all depends on the medical examiner, how complicated the scene is to process, how long it may take to get warrants etc. On natural deaths I have waited 5 hour's for an ME to shown up in the middle of summer.
Spike,
If I read the article correctly it said fish and game were out of town, both of them, so the deputy responded.
Unless you count the guy have sex with a horse, but that's a whole other story
Your welcome.
Maybe I’m the only one that thinks this, but it is no less a shame if it had been a doe. I look at it as wasted meat, not a big buck. Poaching is poaching and assigning values to different animals is assinine IMHO. Poachers should be fined heavily, then spend a little time in the stout house. Maybe then they wouldn’t do it anymore.
No experience with that one lol
