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CUSTER COUNTY, ID – Two men have been sentenced after illegally poaching a mule deer buck in Custer County, ID last year. A call from a witness to Idaho’s poaching hotline helped officers detect and solve the crime.

According to the Idaho Fish & Game, the buck was illegally taken on Saturday, October 29 in Unit 36 near Rankin Creek, a tributary of the Yankee Fork Salmon River near Stanley, ID. The general deer season had closed five days prior on October 24.

The case began when a witness called Idaho’s Citizens Against Poaching Hotline on Sunday, October 30, reporting that he encountered two out-of-state hunters that had taken a large, 3-by-4 mule deer buck the previous day, according to a press release. The witness was able to provide…