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FWC Law Enforcement Report

The Florida FWC Division of Law Enforcement reported the following activity during the weekly period ending January 28 in Escambia and Santa Rosa counties.

ESCAMBIA COUNTY

Officer Barnard received information on the location of a baited hunting site in Yellow River Management Area.  When he responded to the area, he encountered a person leaving the area on a golf cart.  Officer Barnard spoke to the subject about the baited site and he denied any knowledge of it.  Officer Barnard continued to the baited site, noticing that the golf cart tire sign lead straight to it.  At the baited stand site, he discovered corn scattered, a feeder full of corn, a trail camera and a pine tree that had recently been climbed using a climbing tree stand.  He also noticed that the tree that held the feeder had approximately 100 nails and screws driven into it in an apparent attempt to keep squirrels out of the feeder.  Officer Barnard seized the items as evidence.  Officer Barnard again made contact with the subject who again denied any knowledge of the baited sight.  Officer Barnard obtained a search warrant to look at the photos on the trail camera, which had a clear picture of the same subject on it.  Officer Barnard obtained warrants on the subject for placing bait in a management area and for driving metal objects into a tree which was located on a management area.

SANTA ROSA COUNTY

Officers Lewis and Ramos were on patrol when they heard gunshots after legal shooting hours in a nearby farm field.  They entered the farm field and observed a truck that was attempting to exit the field. The officers observed a man and a woman along with three rifles on the front seat of the truck.  When asked about the gunshots, the male said that he was attempting to shoot at a fox because they were digging holes in the field.  He said he was hunting in the field earlier but did not see any deer.  The officers located an injured antlerless deer lying in the field.  The man was interviewed and admitted to shooting at a doe deer as they left the field.  A computer check revealed that the man was a convicted felon and the woman had a warrant for worthless checks.  The rifle the man shot the doe deer with came back as stolen.  The officers charged the male subject with possession of a firearm by a convicted felon and taking an antlerless deer during the closed season and arrested the woman for the warrant.  Both subjects were booked into the Santa Rosa County Jail.  The theft of the firearm is under investigation.

Lieutenant Hahr located an area along Coldwater Creek that had been baited with milo for ducks.  He returned to the area before sunrise and observed three subjects arrive at the site, set up wood duck decoys and begin calling for wood ducks.  After a little while, two of the subjects shot but did not hit any ducks.  As they began to leave, Lieutenant Hahr approached them.  They admitted to baiting the area and attempting to take wood ducks.  Lieutenant Hahr documented several other violations including hunting with an unplugged shotgun, using lead shot to take waterfowl, no federal duck stamp, and no hunting license or applicable permits.  The three subjects were all charged with hunting ducks over bait and were given citations for some of the license violations.  They were warned for the additional violations.

This report represents some events the FWC handled over the past week; however, it does not include all actions taken by the Division of Law Enforcement. Information provided by FWC.