{"id":9474,"date":"2015-12-07T16:23:34","date_gmt":"2015-12-07T21:23:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/?p=9474"},"modified":"2017-04-14T15:55:08","modified_gmt":"2017-04-14T19:55:08","slug":"natural-resources-police-blotter-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/2015\/12\/07\/natural-resources-police-blotter-6\/","title":{"rendered":"Natural Resources Police Blotter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/07\/NRPcolor.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-3897\" src=\"http:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/07\/NRPcolor-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"104\" height=\"104\" srcset=\"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/07\/NRPcolor-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/07\/NRPcolor-30x30.jpg 30w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 104px) 100vw, 104px\" \/><\/a>Two men were charged over the weekend with hunting violations on the Eastern Shore by officers of the Maryland Natural Resources Police.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>On Saturday night, officers working a surveillance detail at Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge with agents of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service arrested Christopher Philip Doege, 53, of Taylors Island. Doege was using a spotlight as he hunted a deer decoy set up by officers.<\/p>\n<p>When officers stopped and searched his vehicle, they found within easy reach of the driver a rifle and ammunition, which they seized.<\/p>\n<p>Doege will be charged with spotlighting deer and spotlighting deer with an implement, violations of the National Wildlife Refuge Administration Act. If found guilty in federal court, Doege could face a maximum sentence of six months in jail and a $5,000 fine.<\/p>\n<p>According to Maryland court records, Doege has an open 1999 natural resources case in Dorchester District Court for failing to appear on a charge of hunting with an unplugged shotgun.<\/p>\n<p>__________________________<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday morning, an officer on patrol in Queen Anne\u2019s County charged a hunter with illegal hunting after receiving a report of a man with a rifle on an all-terrain vehicle along Stafford Road.<\/p>\n<p>Bruce Charles Smith, 62, of Stevensville was charged with hunting from an ATV. He received warnings for hunting without a license, failing to wear fluorescent orange, hunting during a closed season and possessing a loaded weapon in a vehicle.<\/p>\n<p>The officer seized the loaded Remington 6 mm rifle, which was in the basket of the ATV. When contacted, the land owner confirmed he had permission to hunt the property, which Smith used to own.<\/p>\n<p>A hearing date has not been scheduled yet in Queen Anne\u2019s District Court. If found guilty, Smith could be fined as much as $1,500.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two men were charged over the weekend with hunting violations on the Eastern Shore by officers of the Maryland Natural Resources Police.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"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":[],"class_list":["post-9474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-appnews","category-nrp-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9474","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\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9474"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9474\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9475,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9474\/revisions\/9475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}