{"id":39102,"date":"2023-11-17T20:44:26","date_gmt":"2023-11-18T01:44:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/?p=39102"},"modified":"2023-11-17T20:44:31","modified_gmt":"2023-11-18T01:44:31","slug":"fwc-charges-polk-county-men-caught-poaching-deer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/2023\/11\/17\/fwc-charges-polk-county-men-caught-poaching-deer\/","title":{"rendered":"FWC charges Polk County men caught poaching deer"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Two Polk County men accused of hunting deer at night have been hit with multiple night poaching charges, according to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC).<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"980\" height=\"653\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 980px) 100vw, 980px\" src=\"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Poached-Deer.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-39103\" style=\"width:510px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Poached-Deer.jpg 980w, https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Poached-Deer-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Poached-Deer-768x512.jpg 768w\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The FWC said its officers were on routine patrol when they heard a gunshot and observed a man with a rifle standing next to a vehicle on the side of the road.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When officers approached the vehicle, they saw a passenger inside the truck and an antlered deer in the bed of the vehicle. They said a search of the truck turned up three other firearms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to the FWC, the two men admitted to shooting the deer earlier that night and shooting a second deer that was never located.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The men, identified as Chase Purcell, 36, and Andrew Barbee, 21, were arrested for multiple hunting offenses and taken to the Polk County Jail.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Purcell is charged with taking a deer at night, taking from a roadway and taking an antlered deer without having an antler with at least three points on one side or a main beam of at least 10 inches in total length.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Barbee is charged with taking a deer at night, taking from a roadway, discharge of a firearm from a public road and illegal method of take, the FWC said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two Polk County men accused of hunting deer at night have been hit with multiple night poaching charges, according to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC). The FWC&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":39103,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"wpai_generated_summary":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"{title}\n\n{excerpt}\n\n{url}","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"dois","default_image_id":71799,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[14],"tags":[6784],"class_list":["post-39102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-fwc-charges-polk-county-men-caught-poaching-deer"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39102\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}