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FWC Law Enforcement Report

The Florida FWC Division of Law Enforcement reported the following activity during the weekly period ending February 11 in Escambia and Santa Rosa counties.

ESCAMBIA COUNTY

No report submitted.

SANTA ROSA COUNTY

While Officers Miller and Land were patrolling Eglin WMA, they located multiple tree stands placed in close proximity to several illegal food plots. The following morning, the officers returned to the area and located two hunters exiting the woods.  One of the hunters claimed to be stalk hunting even though he was wearing a harness used for hunting from a tree stand.  The second hunter stated that he had been hunting from a nearby ladder stand.  The hunters took the officers back to the area where they had been hunting; the same area that had the illegal food plots.  After questioning, the two hunters admitted to placing bait within the management area and planting the food plots.  Both hunters were issued a notice to appear for placing/hunting over bait on a management area and their Eglin Permits were seized by Range Patrol.

Officers teamed up with other FWC staff to work the Blackwater Hutton Unit Mobility Impaired Hunts over the last two weekends.  As they have for the last several years, the officers helped to provide the hunters and guests with a full meal each day, assistance with cleaning their game, and assistance tracking and recovering game.  Several members and groups within the community stepped up to donate money, food, and time to help make this a successful hunt.  Several hunters bagged deer and all of the hunters enjoyed their hunt. Many thanks to all of the staff that volunteered their time and efforts towards making this hunt one of the best in the state!

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.