Categories: General Outdoor

TX Teens Cited For Alligator Poaching

Orange County Game Wardens received a call from the Orange County Sheriff’s Office Dispatch reporting several deputies were attending to an alligator near Bridge City.  A game warden responded to the popular fishing spot and discovered three teenagers had caught a 7-foot alligator. The youths had also enlisted the help of another person to kill it.  The three teenagers were cited for taking the alligator in closed season. The alligator was turned over to a nuisance control hunter. Cases are pending.

NOTE: Texas Fish & Game has been investigating teen poaching incidents since two Orange County teens were busted for poaching an Atlantic bottlenose dolphin with bowfishing equipment in 2015. Look for a new report on the teen poaching issue in coming editions of the e-newsletter.

The Other White Meat

The Texas Game Warden Criminal Investigation Division (CID) provided Bexar County Game Wardens with information regarding an individual selling deer meat on Craigslist. The game wardens responded to a residence in Southern Bexar County where the suspect admitted to attempting to sell the deer meat and gave information where the white-tailed deer had been killed. The individual was cited for selling white-tailed deer meat.

What’s My Age Again?

Wise and Jack County Game Wardens observed a male subject who appeared to have passed out on a pontoon boat.  His legs were hanging from the passenger compartment near the engine while the vessel was underway.  The wardens stopped the boat and determined the subject was underage and highly intoxicated.  Other minors on the boat also admitted to consuming alcohol.  An adult on the boat confessed to one of the wardens that he provided the alcohol knowing underage occupants were consuming it.  One subject was placed under arrest for public intoxication and another arrested for the purchasing/furnishing alcohol to a minor.  Citations for minors in consumption of alcohol were issued to the occupants who had a detectable amount of alcohol in their system.

TFG Editorial

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