(WFRV) – Authorities in Wisconsin say a tip in mid-July led to an investigation that helped them uncover what they say is a “large-scale” deer poaching scheme.
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According to a release from the Fond du Lac County Sheriff’s Office, a deputy received a tip and contacted a conservation warden with the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources leading to a joint investigation.
Officials say the investigation uncovered a “large-scale” deer poaching scheme in the last year that covered an estimated area of about 200 square miles across Fond du Lac, Dodge, and Washington Counties.
The general boundaries of the area targeted by the suspects in the deer poaching scheme are believed to fall within a perimeter outlined between Campbellsport, Waucousta, Lomira, Theresa, West Bend, and Kewaskum.
At this time, authorities are looking to speak with anyone who has any information on or has witnessed any of the following:
- Hearing gunshots during overnight hours.
- Observing a suspicious vehicle shining deer, stopping in the roadway, and/or shooting
from a vehicle. - Locating dead deer carcasses, on public or private land, with bullet wounds. Bucks
would have the full head removed, and it would be fully intact. - Observing deer, alive or deceased, with what appear to be gunshot wounds, especially
outside of deer hunting season.
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Anyone with any other information relevant to the ongoing investigation is asked to contact their respective county’s sheriff’s office.
