‘Potential poacher’ arrested after using dogs to chase, catch hog in Sarasota state park: deputies

SARASOTA, Fla. (WFLA) — Sarasota County deputies arrested a “potential poacher” after he used his dogs to catch a hog in Myakka State Park, according to the sheriff’s office.

A Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission officer reached out to the Sarasota County Sheriff’s Office’s aviation unit to ask for assistance locating a “potential poacher” just after midnight on June 5.

SCSO said it located a man and two dogs on a side-by-side in Myakka State Park.

Video from the aviation unit shows the dogs chasing a hog, which was then hauled back to the side-by-side…

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