Multiple hunters ticketed for trespassing over the weekend

GILLETTE (WNE) — Sheriff’s deputies ticketed trespassers throughout the county last weekend who said they were unaware they were on private land.
At about 9 a.m. Friday, deputies ticketed a 23-year-old man and 24-year-old man off of Mackey Road for trespassing. The two admitted to trespassing in order to hunt, and Wyoming Game and Fish wardens took over a poaching investigation after deputies left, Undersheriff Quentin Reynolds said.
Saturday, at about 6 p.m., a 37-year-old land owner reported that two men were trespassing on private property along Heald Road and shot a deer from his property that was on public land that borders his land. 
The 62-year-old man from Rhode Island and 55-year-old man from New Hampshire said they unintentionally crossed into private land while they were hunting. The two were ticketed for trespassing, Reynolds said.
About noon Sunday, deputies ticketed four men, 45, 46, 51 and 55, for criminal trespass after a 34-year-old man reported a dark Chevrolet with Washington plates traveling on Todd Road, a private road. 
The private road had many signs saying no trespassing but when deputies talked with the men they said they did not know the road was private.
After deputies pointed out the signs, the men said that they now saw them. The men had shot two antelope bucks that were checked by Wyoming Game and Fish.
 
This story was published on Oct. 3, 2022.