RED FEATHER LAKES, Colo. (CBS4) — Two members of a hunting party from New York state were cited Wednesday for tracking and killing a bull elk on a private ranch property.

Those men face suspensions that could prevent them from hunting for at least a year almost anywhere in the nation, including their home state.

Jason Clay, a spokesman for Colorado Parks & Wildlife, said other hunters witnessed four hunters crossing onto the ranch property Tuesday and phoned in a report to the state’s Operation Game Thief tipline.

The ranch owner told a CPW officer there was no permission given to access his property or to hunt animals on it.

That officer’s K9, Cash, led him to one of the hunters and, later that day, to a kill site on the ranch property.

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