Lawnboy,
Long story with lots of twists and turns along the way...crazy really.
But, the short version, very punctuated, is that a friend of mine moved to Cheyenne about 9-10 years ago and through work, got to know Troy.
My buddy went with Troy, hunting for elk in November, in an area Troy had an elk tag in. Troy didnt get an elk, but killed a deer while hunting elk (on private that he said he had permission to hunt). I thought it was odd that he killed a deer in this particular elk area in November as there hadnt been an open deer season since October 15th.
My buddy was convinced that Troy was legal, I was convinced he wasnt. I hadnt lived in Wyoming long either, so I had to double check the regs. In the meantime, I'd seen the deer and pictures of it...no monster, solid 170 type deer though. When I found he'd taken that deer illegally I wasnt happy about it.
I contacted the G&F shortly after about it, talked to a warden...and heard nothing back.
Flash forward to this last spring and out of the blue I get a phone call from a different Warden asking what I knew about the deer in question. I told the Warden pretty much what I'd told the other guy 10 years ago. Apparently there had been a new "break" in the case...an anonymous tip with lots of details that I knew nothing about.
A few months later I get a letter asking for my testimony against Poacher Hall regarding the deer he poached in Johnson County. Eventually leading to the letter I got last week and his guilty plea.
Thats the very, very short version...it would take an hour long phone call to fill in the details. See Oaks post as to why, the whole story would make you sick...
...but better than nothing I suppose.
