Local food bank to benefit from illegally tagged deer
By Jane Beathard
Staff Writer
A Madison County food bank will benefit from a Plumwood-area man’s failure to properly check and tag the 9-point buck he harvested on the morning of Oct. 1.
Richard L. Turvy, 23, 240 Arthur Bradley Road, was convicted of the wildlife violation in Madison County Municipal Court on Oct. 24.
Magistrate Christopher Brown suspended a 60-day jail sentence for the third-degree misdemeanor, but fined Turvy $400 and court costs.
Brown also suspended Turvy’s hunting privileges for a year and ordered the man to forfeit both the processed meat and rack from the illegally tagged whitetail.
Madison County Wildlife Officer Matt Teders said the division will donate the venison to a local food bank.
Turvy must still pay Warner’s Deer Processing in Union County for converting the meat into jerky, summer sausage and bologna.
Teders said Turvy arrowed the buck, then checked and tagged it in his girlfriend’s name so he could continue to hunt throughout the season.
The officer said similar tagging violations are not uncommon in Ohio.
He caught Turvy’s actions through the division’s new on-line licensing and check system.
“The new computer system does amazing things,” Teders said.
In court, Brown warned Turvy against future violations of Ohio’s wildlife laws.
“There will be swift and certain penalties for this,” Brown said. “It’s a dangerous endeavor.”
the rest of you need to take a look at yourselves before you make stupid comments about others.
this is funny he deserved every bit of it i know this kid close should of been worst but its okay mommy and grandma will pay for it anyways so its okay. worthless
you sound a little envious of someone who has a family that cares about them! you must be WORTHLESS!
Jimmy, you think everyone in London is perfect? No drug problems, no people destroying property. What’s amazing is you must be delusional. If you know about Plumtuckey you know they are not all related unlike the elite of London.
I dont live in london it is a dirty little town just like Plumtuckey not my faught all that stuff goes on up there must be the folks that live there field billys Hewww nasty nasty nasty
oh Yea what good comes from plumtuckey nothing but theives drug dealers and POACHERS
the guys not smart enough to try something like this…
This guys been doing this samething for years, Should have lost hunting rights forever.
Wow I cant see any one from Plumtuckey doing any thing wrong they dont grow dope they dont destroy there school they dont break in to the only store there this is amazing it must be a misprint and then again I could be wrong and and heck they are all related
oh yea one more thing life is like a gravel road never straight and always stoned !!
Not everyone is stoned. Maybe if that had been the case the punishment would not have been so big. The stoned ones are in a group of their own and don’t get in that much trouble.
They get to go out and do what they want. Since you reference Plumtuckey you must be familiar with the area so you would know.