COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — Colorado Parks and Wildlife (CPW) is seeking information on the illegal poaching and abandonment of the bodies of four large bull elk on four separate ranches in Las Animas County.<\/p>\n
According to CPW, a $1,000 reward will be offered for information that leads to a citation or arrest. <\/p>\n
CPW says the elk were found shot Sept. 13, 26, and 27 around the communities of Stonewall and Picketwire. <\/p>\n
According to CPW, one elk was shot and abandoned whole, one was wounded and had to be put down, another was shot with the backstraps removed, and the fourth had its head removed with no meat taken. <\/p>\n
\u201cThese were senseless and disgraceful acts which demonstrates a complete disregard for Colorado wildlife,\u201d said Jim Hawkins, CPW Assistant Chief of Law Enforcement and Operation Game Thief Coordinator.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Information may be provided anonymously through\u00a0Operation Game Thief<\/a>\u00a0at 1-877-265-6648 or by email to\u00a0game.thief@state.co.us<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n Stay up to date with the latest local news, sports, and investigations by downloading the KRDO13 app. Click here to download it from the Apple App Store.<\/a> Android users can download it from Google Play here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — Colorado Parks and Wildlife (CPW) is seeking information on the illegal poaching and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":197355,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[79,201],"class_list":{"0":"post-197354","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-science","9":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197354\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/197355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}