LANSING, Mich. — An Otsego County man is accused of poaching deer on private property.
The suspect, 59-year-old Cecil Edward Day from Johannesburg, was arrested Nov. 18 after the Michigan Department of Natural Resources (DNR) says a tip proved he left a car with a gun and shot a deer.
We’re told two more deer were found shot and abandoned nearby. One of them was a nine-point buck.
The DNR says Day was arraigned a day later on charges of felon in possession of a firearm, felon in possession of ammunition, having a gun with blood alcohol content exceeding the legal limit, and for not wearing hunter’s orange.
Day was reportedly convicted between 2018 and 2020 for felon in possession of a firearm, trespassing, removing deer from a vehicle, not wearing hunter’s orange and possessing an untagged deer.
The DNR encourages Michigan hunters to review hunting regulations on its webpage.
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