The Brief
- Five Michigan hunters were sentenced in Ohio for deer poaching wildlife crimes.
- A two-year undercover investigation was conducted by the Ohio Division of Wildlife.
- Among the charges were jacklighting, an unethical and illegal hunting method that uses lights to stun deer making them easier to shoot.
FOX 2 – Eleven hunters were charged and sentenced in an Ohio deer poaching case that started in 2023, including five from Michigan.
The backstory:
The case was centered around a group of Michigan hunters who harvested multiple bucks, illegally spotlighting and shooting them at night, and not properly tagging the deer, according to the Ohio Division of Wildlife.…