Encon Officer News - 19 December 2024

Buck Taken Over Bait – Greene County

On Dec. 7, ECO Palmateer responded to a complaint about subjects at a hunting camp illegally feeding deer in the town of Prattsville. Officer Palmateer arrived at the location and noticed drops of blood in the snow while interviewing the property owner who admitted to placing corn in the area to feed the deer and shooting a buck at the location the previous afternoon. The property owner relayed that he then transported the deer carcass to a butcher shop in the town of Catskill. Lieutenant Glorioso headed to the butcher shop to confirm the story while ECO Palmateer interviewed the subject further. Before long, the subject admitted to Officer Palmateer that the deer he shot over the bait the day before was his second buck of the year and that he had put his daughter’s tag on it. In New York, hunters are permitted to take one buck during the big game regular rifle season. Lieutenant Glorioso observed both bucks at the butcher shop and seized the second one as evidence. Officer Palmateer ticketed the subject for using the tags of another, taking over the limit of white-tailed deer, hunting with the aid of pre-established bait, and the illegal take of white-tailed deer. Tickets are returnable to the Town of Prattsville Court, and the seized deer was brought to a local butcher shop that participates in a venison donation program.