Poaching: Ancona, the Forestale surprised and arrested a man with illegal weapons, bird nets and illegally captured birds; two accomplices also reported.
The men of the Forestry Corps of the State of Ancona, following an investigation which lasted about seven months and conducted in collaboration with the stations of Senigallia (AN), Sassoferrato (AN), Pesaro and Urbino, Cagli (PU) and Pergola (PU ), they surprised two poachers who practiced fowling; one of them was later arrested for possessing illegal weapons.
The final operation took place at dawn on Monday 11 August in the locality of Marotta di Mondolfo (PU) where the men of the Forestry surprised two people as they returned to their car with some birds just caught through a birding net and with two live calls.
The two poachers were then stopped and searches were carried out at their respective homes during which two clandestine guns, three illegally detained guns, more than 4.000 ammunition and about one kilogram of unreported gunpowder were found; after the house searches were completed, a total of twenty-one rifles, ammunition, more than two hundred decoy birds, electronic decoy devices, snares for capturing wild boars and ungulates in general, traps for catching passerines and two boxes of rings for illicit ringing were seized of the captured birds.
The rings made it possible to reach another accomplice, a bird breeder from Monsano (AN), who contributed to the regularization of decoy birds captured illegally. One of the poachers, already known for the same crimes and violations of hunting regulations, was arrested for the possession of clandestine weapons and illegally detained rifles. In addition, both poachers were charged with the crimes of fowling, mistreatment of animals and failure to keep weapons; in the same way the breeder accomplice who supplied the rings to regularize the calls caught illegally was also denounced on the loose.
(16 August 2014)
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