CHESTER TOWNSHIP, MI (WHTC) – The DNR is calling it the worst case of poaching in a quarter century in Michigan.
Four men from Coopersville area were caught in the act of attracting ducks to a pond in Ottawa County by laying out corn and then shooting them. Sunday they seized 58 dead birds from the suspects, confiscated their guns, suspended their hunting privileges and will pursue poaching charges against the four young men in their 20’s.
It’s a crime to use bait to hunt duck.
Conservation officer David Rodgers says it was a slaughter. Rodgers tells WZZM TV 13 that they got a tip on the poacher’s hot line about an unusual amount of gunfire coming from the pond in Chester Township, and the responded in time.
– John McNeill contributed to this report.
