Half-a-dozen hunters in a pickup truck were intercepted on Highway 105 after a confrontation with landowners in the Wakefield area Saturday evening.

At about 7 a.m., a 12-year-old boy alerted his aunt and uncle that he’d heard several gunshots on their property on MacLaren Road in La Pêche.

There followed a “verbal altercation” with the hunters, who’d not been given permission to hunt on private property,  and they fled.

Soon after, police stopped the truck in which two teenagers, two men and two women were riding.

Police say that one of the men and a 15-year-old youth had disembarked from the truck and fired on a turkey on a…