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Taco Loco
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GAME WARDEN FIELD NOTES
Excerpts from recent TPWD law enforcement reports
APRIL FOOLS EDITION!
SOMETIMES MODESTY’S THE BEST POLICY - Val Verde County Game Warden Chrissy Plant made contact with hunters at a camp in West Val Verde County on the second day of general deer season. Although the hunters had no deer, one hunter started bragging about the four javelinas he had killed. They’d scared off his deer at the feeder, he said. Not impressed, Warden Plant cited him for exceeding his bag limit. At another nearby camp, Plant checked some hunters who had been luckier, having taken a nice buck. An hour and a couple flashlight batteries later, Plant found the carcass of a javelina that had been dumped the day before, and a case for waste of game is pending.
UNWISE POACHING IN WISE COUNTY - Wise County Game Warden Chris Dowdy and Tarrant County Game Warden David Vannoy were patrolling Wise County on the eve of the rifle season opener. While investigating a call about a possible poacher, warden Dowdy received another call from a landowner about a deer that had just been shot from the road. After the first call was cleared, the wardens responded to the second call. When they arrived, the wardens found two very upset landowners and one dead white-tailed doe. Darkness had not yet fallen, and the wardens figured that the poachers would soon be back for their take. They didn’t have to wait long before the poachers returned. As a pickup truck crept to a stop on the county road, the driver got out and gleefully ran through the field laughing and shouting back to his buddies, “I got it, I got it!” As the driver attempted to return to the truck with the deer, wardens Dowdy and Vannoy surprised the two men and one juvenile. In the truck, the wardens found a rifle, spotlight, headlamps, and beer. Another doe poached from a neighboring county also was found in the bed of the truck. Multiple cases are pending.
CASE MADE BY JUST A HAIR - Houston County wardens Eddie Lehr and Zak Benge were checking camps in the national forest on opening day of general deer season when a truck pulled up. When asked, the men said they had not killed anything. But Lehr noticed what appeared to be a red stain in the bed of the freshly washed truck and dropped the tailgate. After the wardens found a single deer hair, the suspects finally confessed to killing an illegal buck. After a short interview, the suspect also admitted shooting the deer with a shotgun from Highway 7 near Ratcliff. Cases and restitution pending.
CASE OF THE MISPLACED ANGER - Sabine County Game Warden Sam Smith and Capt. Tom Jenkins checked a hunter coming out of a wildlife management area on opening day. The man did not have an annual public hunting permit, and as warden Smith wrote the citation, the subject said he was angry at the store that sold him the license for not informing him that he needed a permit to hunt on a wildlife management area, and that he would be having the store pay his fine. Capt. Jenkins, who had walked into the woods while Smith talked with the annoyed license holder, found a permanent stand, corn, and a freshly killed white-tailed doe. The man admitted to all the violations and said he was no longer mad at the store that sold him his license. Cases pending.
SOMETIMES WAITING’S A GOOD THING - Houston County Wardens Eddie Lehr and Zak Benge checked a camp and found two untagged deer. After interviewing a father and son, it was determined that they had each killed a deer. Unfortunately, the son hadn’t wanted to wait in line the previous Friday to buy his license so the father offered to tag each deer. Case pending.
DIDN’T TAKE CSI TO FIGURE THIS ONE OUT - Houston County Wardens Zak Benge and Eddie Lehr received an Operation Game Thief tip concerning an illegal buck. They located a deer head in an open field on a private road. It appeared that an animal had dragged the head there. With the tag still attached, locating the suspect was fairly easy. Case pending.
ALL IN THE FAMILY - Lamar County Game Warden Bryan Callihan and Hopkins County Game Warden Jarrod Bryant caught three groups of spotlighters in Delta County inside two hours. One man said his wife had warned him about road hunting before he left the house. This same man went home and told his son to watch out for game wardens, but the boy didn’t listen. An hour later the wardens caught the son on the same road where he dad had been caught.
WELL, THERE WAS THAT LITTLE DEAL LAST YEAR - Morris County Warden Michael Serbanic interviewed a suspect after a Morris County deputy stopped him and found a gun and spotlight in the vehicle. The suspect would not admit to road hunting but decided to tell warden Serbanic about the 8-pointer he killed last year and didn’t tag. After looking at the man’s old license and finding no tags missing and getting the deer head from his residence, citations were issued.
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Taco Loco
Tired and Lazy, married to ‘The Laundry Fairy’
Part 2
NOTHING ACCIDENTAL ABOUT IT - Refugio County Game Wardens Pinky Gonzales and Danny Kelso received a call from a Refugio County deputy concerning a vehicle he had stopped with a white-tailed buck deer in the back of the vehicle. The two subjects in the vehicle told the wardens that they had accidentally hit the deer with their vehicle. But the wardens found a receipt showing they had purchased a box of bullets about an hour earlier. Checking the deer, the wardens found one shot to the head and one in the neck. Confession, confiscation, impoundment, citations and a trip to jail followed. Cases pending.
HUNTER UP A TREE, LITERALLY AND FIGURATIVELY - Tarrant County Game Wardens John Padgett and Clint Borchardt found a vehicle parked in the tree line inside a Fort Worth park. The Fort Worth Marshal’s Office had reported possible illegal hunting in the area several weeks prior. As police vehicles entered the property, the hunter climbed out of a tree and tried to hide. He was found squatting in some brush close to the road and apprehended. A photograph of the subject posing with a deer he had killed was found in his truck. After further questioning, the man said he had shot that deer in Azle, another property he did not have permission to hunt on. The deer, which had not been tagged, was picked up at a local taxidermist. The man, previously convicted of hunting without consent, was also in possession of a drug pipe and methamphetamines. He was charged with hunting without landowner consent, possession of a controlled substance, and cited for the untagged deer for which civil restitution will be sought. Cases pending.
WE’RE NOT IN KANSAS ANY MORE - A Texas Department of Public Safety trooper working drug interdiction along IH-35 in Wise County made a traffic stop and noticed blood and deer parts in the bed of the truck. The trooper contacted Wise County Game Warden Chris Dowdy, who then contacted Denton County Game Wardens Chip Daigle and Daron Blackerby to assist the trooper. The driver at first said he had shot the deer, and then changed his story to blame someone else. After a lengthy interview the driver said he had brought three bucks back from Kansas intending to process them in Texas and return the meat to Kansas. He said he had only two tags, but he did not want to waste the meat of the third deer. The wardens went to the man’s house and located a 6-point buck from Montague County along with the man’s Kansas tags, but only one tag was for a buck. The other was for a doe. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service joined the investigation and multiple cases are pending.
HOW NOT TO HUNT DEER - Shortly before midnight, Polk County Game Wardens Ryan Hall and David Johnson observed a vehicle traveling very slowly down a county road, occasionally turning so its headlights illuminated the right of way. The wardens stopped the vehicle and found the driver in possession of a loaded .22 Magnum rifle. He later said he had been hunting white-tailed deer from the roadway. Early the next morning, Hall returned to the area and recovered a yearling white-tailed deer near the scene. The animal had a fresh small caliber bullet hole in its neck. The suspected night hunter implicated another subject as well, and additional charges were filed on both subjects. These included a Class A misdemeanor waste of game charge for the shooter, who claimed responsibility for not coming back for the deer. Cases and civil restitution are pending.
COOLER ICES CASE AGAINST VIOLATOR - Polk County Game Warden David Johnson made contact with an individual in a hunting camp. During a brief conversation, the man said he had just arrived and was unaware of any deer having been killed that weekend. A check of the camp’s skinning rack proved otherwise, but the individual still claimed he didn’t know of any deer being taken. But an inspection of his ice chest revealed a freshly-cleaned deer in a trash bag, with no proof of sex or tag. After a lengthy interview with the subject and his son, the man admitted killing a buck that did not meet Polk County antler restrictions. A deer head was retrieved from the woods and several citations were issued. Cases and civil restitution are pending.
ROAD HUNT GOES TO POT, SO TO SPEAK - At approximately 9:30PM Uvalde County Game Warden Henry Lutz received a call from a hunter north of Sabinal reporting that someone was shooting from a vehicle on the road near his hunting camp. Warden Lutz was nearby and located the vehicle, which was occupied by two subjects. The warden found two freshly killed deer in the bed of their truck as well as a small amount of marijuana. Uvalde County warden Rachel Kellner later arrived and assisted with trying to locate any other downed deer. Both subjects were arrested and booked into the Uvalde Jail. One was charged with hunting white-tailed deer at night, a Class A misdemeanor, and possession of marijuana, a Class B misdemeanor. The other subject has been caught for night hunting twice previously in Uvalde County, one of the cases as far back as 1992, and already had a Class A conviction for hunting white-tailed deer at night. Warden Lutz is preparing a state jail felony case on this individual.
Taco Loco
Tired and Lazy, married to ‘The Laundry Fairy’
Part 3
TIPSTER A BIT TOO TIPSY - Wilson County warden Jesse Garcia received a call that a deer with its head cut off had been found on the side of the road. The subject who found the deer agreed to meet the warden at the location. Garcia arrived and was inspecting the deer when the man who reported it drove up. The warden noticed the man appeared very unsteady when he got out of his vehicle and had a strong odor of alcohol on his breath. The subject said he loved having his beer in the afternoon, and he hoped Garcia was not going to take him in. After administrating a field sobriety test, Garcia arrested the subject for DWI and transported him to the Wilson County Jail. Garcia filed a second offense DWI due to a prior conviction, a Class A misdemeanor.
“FOWL” PLAY DETERMINED - Floyd County Game Warden Mark Collins and Hockley County warden Jay Oyler encountered a group of successful waterfowl hunters in Floyd County. They were in possession of numerous freshly killed ducks, geese and sandhill crane, and were busy cleaning the birds. The problem was, they were filleting the meat from the breasts and discarding the carcass, failing to leave a wing attached for species identification. The wardens discovered the group had hunted the previous day and had more birds in an ice chest back at their hotel. The cooler was located and found to contain filleted waterfowl breasts. Multiple cases and warnings filed.
VIOLATOR BETTER MARKSMAN THAN HE THOUGHT - Foard County warden Matt Thompson and Wilbarger County warden Dyke McMahen received a call from a Foard County deputy that a man had seen someone shooting from the roadway. The deputy spotted the vehicle the witness had described. The vehicle was stopped, but the two occupants denied shooting from the roadway. After questioning, they finally admitted one of them had shot at a white-tailed buck from the vehicle but missed. Information was gathered, and the two subjects were released. Meanwhile, the deputy went back to the area and discovered a freshly shot white-tailed buck. Arrest warrants were drawn, and the two out-of-state subjects were taken into custody at their hotel for hunting from a vehicle on a public roadway.
texasislandboy
donde esta la NGAGE IT
wow i just read the one about waste of game........ they are brush rats kill them all
agree
thekidcatcher
Well-Known Member
bullshit. All lies!
AlienXtx
Nignog
WTF would eat that nasty shit (might be the best meat in the world but I aint skinning one) Barf.
thekidcatcher
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Ericans
texasislandboy
donde esta la NGAGE IT
hahahahha maybe south of the bordercans?
AlienXtx
Nignog
If Eric will skin it (away from camp) I will give him a knife to do it, and I will try some.
texasislandboy
donde esta la NGAGE IT
you know i have cleaned one before they arnt that bad if its cold out
AlienXtx
Nignog
that might be a problem this weekend, they wernt that bad last time either untill the next morning..
thekidcatcher
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So if I cut a hunk outta one and cook it you will eat it? or does it have to be eric
thekidcatcher
Well-Known Member
Hmmm Ill think about it . Gotta be an all for one deal though
. Gotta be an all for one deal though
thekidcatcher
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Worst kinda rattler is the pink rattle snake. Gotta watch out
I'd eat it. It's just pork