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Better late than never
I live and hunt in the area as well. I always wonder how big bucks get in the Sespe with no one hunting them, I was hoping there would be more photos of what they killed in there.I got a good laugh out of this. These guys were hunting around my area.Coordinated animal poaching crew in Ventura County busted by Fish and Wildlife
Six people are in custody and a seventh is being sought by authorities after California Fish and Wildlife game wardens busted an alleged poaching ring that spanned several years and involved the co…
Hope this brightens someone’s day.
The judge got a kick out of it too.
Some say he's dead, some say he never will be.
Devgru guys out of San Diego for sure.
These guys are high level talent. Word on the street is they trained Josh Bowmar on hunting big whitetail.I’ve hunted Sespe. Tough country. Only deer I found was the one that ran in front of my car and I damn near hit
…… That about says enough for me right there. Posse style hunting at its dumbest.Thank you so much for doing what you did. I have friends every year try to get me in to that gray area in the fish and game laws. Not happening. Ever.Decades ago I got into a group of folks (~ 10) that were from a California hunting club (thinking it was LA area, but can't recall). This was in Jordan, Montana (home of the infamous Freeman and population about 50)
Got several complaints from landowners on these guys trespassing, most of these right off of Highway 200- see something, pullover and shoot.
I waited for them at the motel they were staying and they got in just at dark. Had 2-3 animals in their vehicles (iirc a deer and a couple of antelope), nothing tagged.
I grabbed one guy and started interviewing him, he gave me the skinny on exactly what had been killed, who killed it and where the critters were. Interviewed a couple of more and they eventually corroborated what the first guy told me. I called up my sergeant to give me a hand (he was about 45 minutes out).
Ultimately several cases of transferring licenses (some guys weren't that into hunting and gave their licenses up), couple of over limits, multiple untagged animals, hunting w/o permission, etc. We ended seizing a dozen + critters (there may have been one or two legal ones out of the whole bunch) and wrote a dozen + citations.
When we were all done we told them we had to get bond money from them or they would go to jail (this was the case for all nonresidents at the time, before the Wildlife Compact). The groups leader asked if he could just write one check to cover everything? Sergeant said he could, but reminded him if the check bounced it was a felony (it was a BIG check). The guy wrote a check for a couple of thousand dollars- such and such, California Hunting ClubThe judge got a kick out of it too.
I bet its standing in a circle and Je#$&^ing.E Bike crew? I wonder if they have a secret handshake?
The judge got a kick out of it too.
