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IA: Deer poachers caught by their own website

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October 11, 2016

From KCRG.com

FORT DODGE – Kyle Alstott, 23, co-owned and operated a filming company called ATM Outdoors. He posted pictures of deer, deer hunts, fishing, and other outdoor activities on their website.

Iowa State Conservation Officer Matt Bruner examined the videos and pictures of game they killed and found evidence of:

people shooting deer without the correct licenses
hunting deer over bait
making multiple false claims by nonresident for hunting license/tag
unlawful possession of illegal whitetail deer
hunting with the aid of artificial light and more
Kyle Alstott pleads guilty to these charges:

unlawful possession of illegally killed whitetail buck deer
hunting deer with aid of bait
hunting with the aid of artificial light
unlawful use of two-way radio transmitter while hunting
making false claim for hunting license/tag by non-resident
failure to tag harvested deer
failure to report harvested deer
hunting deer without a valid deer tag
taking whitetail buck without a valid tag
unlawful possession of illegally killed whitetail buck deer in 2014 season
unlawful possession of an illegally killed wild turkey in the 2014 season