{"id":12754,"date":"2017-01-10T13:57:27","date_gmt":"2017-01-10T18:57:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/?p=12754"},"modified":"2017-04-14T14:59:14","modified_gmt":"2017-04-14T18:59:14","slug":"police-cite-one-for-illegal-oystering-catch-two-deer-poachers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/2017\/01\/10\/police-cite-one-for-illegal-oystering-catch-two-deer-poachers\/","title":{"rendered":"Police Cite One for Illegal Oystering; Catch Two Deer Poachers"},"content":{"rendered":"

Illegal oyster harvesting and deer poaching topped the list of cases handled recently by Maryland Natural Resources Police<\/a> officers.<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>A St. Mary\u2019s County man was charged Friday with multiple violations of regulations after he was seen harvesting oysters inside a sanctuary.<\/p>\n

Officers on surveillance saw Steven Gary Adams, 68, of Drayden, hand tonging more than a mile inside the St. Mary\u2019s River Oyster Sanctuary at 4:15 a.m.<\/p>\n

When Adams returned to shore a short time later, officers stopped him. They found seven untagged plastic containers with unmeasured oysters behind a tree. The federal Food and Drug Administration requires tagging so that contaminated oysters can be tracked back to their point of origin and the area can be placed off limits.<\/p>\n

Adams was issued citations for harvesting inside a sanctuary, possessing oysters outside legal hours, failing to tag the containers and operating without running lights. The oysters were returned to the sanctuary.<\/p>\n

Court records show that since 2010, Adams has been convicted of five natural resources offenses involving illegal oyster and crab harvesting and fined $960.<\/p>\n

Adams is scheduled to appear in St. Mary\u2019s County District Court March 2. He must appear in court on the sanctuary violation, which carries a maximum fine of $3,000 and possible license suspension or revocation. The three other charges carry a total maximum fine of $2,500.<\/p>\n

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In Washington County, officers on patrol Friday saw a wounded eight-point buck in a field and a man in a pickup truck approaching it.<\/p>\n

When they checked the state harvest record for Derwood Clayton Mose, 63, of Sharpsburg, they learned he already checked in a five-point buck and a nine point buck during firearms season.<\/p>\n

Mose received citations for exceeding the bag limit for antlered deer and failing to have his hunting license with him. The deer was donated to a family in need.<\/p>\n

He is scheduled to appear in Washington County District Court March 18. If he pleads guilty before that date, he will be fined $750. If he challenges the charges in court and is found guilty, he could be fined a maximum of $3,000.<\/p>\n

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A Hagerstown man was charged with poaching Saturday after officers saw him at Prather\u2019s Neck Wildlife Management Area<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Paul Thomas Twigg, 57, was poaching deer with a 20-gauge shotgun containing slug rounds when he was stopped. The region was closed to firearms on that date.<\/p>\n

Twigg is scheduled to appear in Washington County District Court March 8. He could be fined a maximum of $1,500.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Illegal oyster harvesting and deer poaching topped the list of cases handled recently by Maryland Natural Resources Police officers. A St. Mary\u2019s County man was charged Friday with multiple violations of regulations after he was seen harvesting oysters inside a sanctuary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[957,14],"tags":[2942,2909],"class_list":["post-12754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-appnews","category-nrp-news","tag-st-marys-county","tag-washington-county"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12754","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/136"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12754"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12754\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12761,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12754\/revisions\/12761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}