From FWC

This report represents some events the FWC handled Nov. 3-9 in the North Central Region. (There were no cases reported for Wakulla County or the Northwest Region.)

COLUMBIA COUNTY

  • Lieutenant Kiss and Senior Officer Yates responded to a call regarding a subject who shot himself in the foot. The officers interviewed the victim who said he was walking to his house after hunting and shot the instep of his right foot with a rifle. The wound was minor and treated by medical staff at the hospital. Lieutenant Kiss, Officer Yates and Investigator Dasher went to the scene of the incident to investigate.

LEVY COUNTY

  • During crossbow season, Officer Carroll received a report about a hunter who had shot a deer with a rifle and then left the area. When the officer arrived on scene, she discovered a dead antlered deer. The officer identified a subject and arranged an interview. The subject confessed to killing the antlered deer with a rifle and then leaving it. Officer Carroll charged the subject with taking deer by illegal method, willful and wanton waste of wildlife, and antler point regulations violation.

MADISON COUNTY

  • Officer Vazquez responded to three shots fired after the legal shooting time. The officer arrived in the area and observed a vehicle exit a farm field. He followed the vehicle to a nearby residence. As he pulled up to the residence, he observed a dead antlerless deer on the vehicle’s tailgate. The subject was interviewed and admitted to shooting it after legal shooting hours. The subject was charged with taking antlerless deer after legal shooting hours and issued warnings for no hunting license and failure to log a harvested deer prior to moving it.

SUWANNEE COUNTY

  • Lt. McDonald was at a deer processor when he observed a subject with an antlered deer that did not meeting antler point regulations for the deer management unit it was harvested in. It was also discovered the subject had not logged the harvested deer prior to moving it. The subject was cited accordingly.

TAYLOR COUNTY

  • Officers Clark, Rowe, Troiano, Williamson, and Recruiter Mobley attended the annual Taylor County Forest Festival at Forest Capital Museum State Park. Officers brought numerous trucks and boats to display for the approximately 1,200 elementary and middle school kids who attended. Officers Clark, Troiano, and Williamson assisted in showing the kids how to fish with a rod and reel. Officer Rowe and Recruiter Mobley showed the kids different mounted animals and talked about conservation, hunting and fishing.