Four men are facing deer hunting violation charges after being caught hunting for deer during illegal hours and doing so from a moving vehicle last Sunday night in Red River Parish. But, as Adam Einck with the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries explains there’s a twist to these apprehensions by agents. “They saw a vehicle with a spotlight, spotlighting for deer in an open field on some private property. They were able to make contact with the people inside the vehicle and they found the vehicle belonged to the Coushatta Police Department,” said Einck.
One of those arrested Sunday night, Javerrea Pouncy of Gloster, is an off-duty cop with the police department and presumably was using his patrol unit for the hunt.
Einck says Javerrea Pouncy could wind up facing charges or disciplinary action from other law enforcement agencies, including the Coushatta Police Department. He says the additional punishment could arise “depending on the fact that he was an off-duty police officer using a police department unit to commit crimes.” LDWF cited Pouncy for night hunting and hunting without a license.
Einck says one of the three other people in the police vehicle during the hunt was 31-year-old Anthony Caldwell of Coushatta who was arrested for being a convicted felon in possession of a firearm and had harvested an eight-point buck. “So he was charged with illegal possession of a firearm by a convicted felon and then the other guys in the vehicle, they also did not have (hunting) licenses,” according to Einck.
Caldwell could face up to 20 years in jail if convicted on the firearms charge alone.
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