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DEC police officer Armstrong, with help from K9 Falcon, arrested an Oswego County man accused of poaching more than 30 deer in the past five years.NYS DEC<\/p>\nNew York State Department of Environmental Conservation police arrested an Oswego County man on Aug. 6 accused of widespread deer poaching.<\/p>\n
Oswego County Assistant District Attorney Gleason charged the alleged poacher with grand larceny, criminal mischief, criminal possession of a weapon, and illegally taking protected wildlife. <\/p>\n
ECOs began investigating the man on Nov. 7, 2024, when a concerned landowner called 911 after hearing gunshots on County-owned posted property near Rikers Beach Road in Scriba. <\/p>\n
Two people were reportedly target shooting at the location and had been removed from the property by a state trooper. The shooters later admitted to an ECO of firing two rifles at the site, claiming they had just been sighting in their guns. <\/p>\n
DEC police officer Armstrong, with help from K9 Falcon, arrested an Oswego County man accused of poaching more than 30 deer in the past five years.NYS DEC<\/p>\n
The ECO noticed that the site was overgrown with waist-high brush, had no clear shooting lanes, and was not a place where any experienced shooter would choose to sight in rifles. He also found a freshly killed and field-dressed buck on a well-used deer trail. <\/p>\n
A DEC K9 unit located the original shooting location, the gut pile from the dead deer, and a spent casing from the same type of rifle one of the shooters had admitted to firing. <\/p>\n
A forensic analysis by state police on one of the shooter\u2019s phones also revealed a trove of incriminating photos, messages, and open admissions tying him to the illegal killing of more than 30 deer in the last five years. <\/p>\n
Given the scale of damage to the local deer population, the alleged poacher was taken into custody without incident and the case will be heard in Oswego County Court.<\/p>\n
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ECO Dickson holds a red-tailed hawk he rescued from a well in Oyster Bay on July 22.NYS DECThe following reports are excerpted from DEC:<\/p>\n
A red-tailed hawk chasing after frogs flew into a well in Oyster Bay on July 22 and got stuck. An ECO wrapped the raptor in a blanket and placed it in the sun to dry. A wildlife rehabber determined the bird was dehydrated with some sort of coating on its feathers, causing them to remain stuck together. The rehabber provided it with fluids and a bath. The hawk is improving and will be released soon. For a list of certified rehabbers in NY, visit the DEC website<\/a>.<\/p>\n A Cooper\u2019s hawk got trapped inside a screened in porch in the town of Copake on July 23. An ECO safely captured the bird and took it outside where it flew up to a nearby power line before flying out of sight.<\/p>\n Undersized and over the daily limit of fish were common themes in statewide ECO fishing compliance checks last month. Here are some of the more notable cases:<\/p>\n Steve Featherstone <\/b>covers the outdoors. Contact him at sfeatherstone@syracuse.com<\/a><\/p>\n If you purchase a product or register for an account through a link on our site, we may receive compensation. By using this site, you consent to our User Agreement<\/a> and agree that your clicks, interactions, and personal information may be collected, recorded, and\/or stored by us and social media and other third-party partners in accordance with our Privacy Policy.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New York State Department of Environmental Conservation police arrested an Oswego County man on Aug. 6 accused of…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":152227,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,15968,55855,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-152226","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-dec","10":"tag-eco","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-city","13":"tag-newyork","14":"tag-newyorkcity","15":"tag-ny","16":"tag-nyc","17":"tag-united-states","18":"tag-united-states-of-america","19":"tag-unitedstates","20":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","21":"tag-us","22":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115042179251461404","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=152226"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152226\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/152227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"NYS](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/I5MP6FAMEFGAFI7P6T7ITT7E7E.jpg\")
On July 19, an angler at Basswood Pond in Otsego County was ticketed for possessing undersized black bass and taking over the daily limit of five fish.NYS DEC<\/p>\n\n