Poaching in the Grosseto area. Surprised and reported, yesterday morning, a poacher who for about ten days had placed a large trap cage for the capture of wildlife in the countryside of the Municipality of Roccastrada (GR).
After a few days of checks and stalking, the volunteer guards of the LAC managed to identify the poacher who had placed the cage-trap in which they had ended up. pheasants and porcupines attracted by corn forages; the poacher did not wait long and already in the early morning he showed up to check what was left in the trap.
At this point the man was approached by the voluntary guards who thus alerted the agents of the Provincial Police; the subject was stopped and identified by the guards who then proceeded to administratively sanction him for €. 600,00 for violations concerning the detention of one's own dogs kept in precarious conditions.
During the control carried out by the Provincial Police, the poacher was found to be in possession of a hunting license, therefore he was aware of the period of closure of the hunt and of the prohibited means for its practice.
Upon completion of the investigations, the subject was denounced on the loose for hunting in a period of general prohibition, use of prohibited vehicles for hunting and illegal foraging of wildlife; the cage and all the equipment found in the possession of the poacher was seized by the agents of the Provincial Police.
(April 27, 2016)