Also, the property was owned by one of the men arrested.
Aside from hunting out of season, I'm scratching my head on this. While not condoning the behavior, it WAS private property owned by one of the hunters.
As a note to those who are thinking about picking up “road kill” it might not be fit to eat and I don't mean rotten.
My husband used to raise beef cattle,he had his young animals in the pens for vaccination. One of the heifers got down and the rest of the herd trampled her to death.
He took the heifer to be dressed, cut and wrapped for our freezer. We ended up throwing all the meat out because the bruising kept the blood from draining out of the meat and it was uneatable.