{"id":52582,"date":"2025-12-05T01:24:16","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T01:24:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/52582\/"},"modified":"2025-12-05T01:24:16","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T01:24:16","slug":"deer-shot-from-atvs-at-pennsylvania-elementary-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/52582\/","title":{"rendered":"Deer shot from ATVs at Pennsylvania elementary school"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dec. 4, 2025, 1:31 p.m. ET<\/p>\n

Authorities in Pennsylvania are investigating a deer-poaching incident that involved ATVs and the use of spotlights at an elementary school in Northampton County.<\/p>\n

The illegal hunting activity, which resulted in the killing of at least one white-tailed deer, occurred at Williams Township Elementary School on Nov. 30 at about 3 a.m.<\/p>\n

The Pennsylvania Game Commission stated in a news release that it has footage showing individuals on two ATVs shooting at deer on school property. But positive identification could not be made from the video.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThis incident not only occurred within safety zones of the Williams Township Elementary School, but also numerous private residences,\u201d the Pennsylvania Game Commission added.<\/p>\n

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The Commission asks that individuals with potentially helpful information contact its Southeast Region office at 1-833-PGC-HUNT, or leave a report via the Operation Game Thief Hotline at 1-888-PGC-8001. Tips are also accepted online<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dec. 4, 2025, 1:31 p.m. ET Authorities in Pennsylvania are investigating a deer-poaching incident that involved ATVs and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":52583,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[942,28,30,29,1624,1625,9072,650,1626,1738,1865,651,648,1174,1628,649,1630,535],"class_list":["post-52582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-accessfree","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news","tag-sstssportsoutdoors","tag-sstsnoutdoors","tag-taganimal-poaching","tag-tagcrime-justice","tag-tagdeer","tag-taghunting-shooting","tag-taglaw-enforcement","tag-taglocal-news","tag-tagoverall-negative","tag-tagpennsylvania","tag-tagpennsylvania-game-commission","tag-tagviolence-abuse","tag-tagwildlife","tag-typestory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52582","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52582"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52582\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}