Texas Game Wardens Bust Illegal Deer Operations Across the State

Texas Game Wardens Bust Illegal Deer Operations Across the State

Texas Parks and Wildlife Department,

AUSTIN – A recent investigation by Texas Game Wardens resulted in approximately 1,200 pending charges and 22 suspects from across the state involved in the deer breeding industry and black-market wildlife trade. The suspects and charges are associated with three deer breeding facilities, ten release sites, one deer management pen and three illegal facilities not registered in the Texas Wildlife Information Management Services (TWIMS) database, meaning they were operating or receiving deer in violation of registration requirements and disease […]