Posted: 2.26.10

ORANGE COUNTY

Officers Dan Stermen and John Mattox were working in Tosohatchee Wildlife Management Area.  During a routine inspection, they discovered a Polk County man who was a convicted felon and in possession of a firearm.  The subject was arrested for possession of a firearm by a convicted felon and booked into the county jail.

PUTNAM COUNTY

Officer Troy Starling received information that a subject had killed five turkeys on Murphy’s Island on the St. Johns River.  With the assistance of Lieutenants Ben Allen and George Pottorf, Officers Dana Klein and Mark Tharp, two suspects were tracked down.  A father and son were ultimately charged with take/possess over the season bag limit of turkey, take/possess over the daily bag limit of turkey, two counts of taking hen turkey and hunting on water management district property.  The father was also charged with obstructing an FWC officer.

ST. JOHNS COUNTY

Officer Lee Lawshe completed a boating accident investigation.  The accident occurred on the Intracoastal Waterway in St. Augustine last month when the operator and occupant went out after dark in sub-freezing temperatures in a small dingy that had a hole in it.  The operator was charged with violation of navigational rule #2 resulting in a boating accident.

’s residence. The suspect was not at home, but Officer Starling found the doe carcass behind the residence. The suspect eventually came home and confessed to killing the deer. He was charged with taking antlerless deer.

Lieutenant Allen received a call from a property owner who caught a hunting dog pursuing deer on his property from an adjacent hunt club. The property owner had removed the dog’s collar. Lieutenant Allen met the property owner, obtained a statement and seized the collar. He then met the hunter and returned the collar. The hunter was charged with allowing dogs to pursue deer on the land of another.