A Virginia property owner is accusing a state fish and game warden of sneaking onto his private property and stealing one of his trail cameras. And now he’s suing.
Resident Josh Highlander owns a home that sits on a wooded, 30-acre spread east of Richmond, Virginia, and in April, while he and his family were enjoying the weather outside their home, his wife caught sight of a man wearing camouflage hiding in the trees near their house, according to Reason Magazine.
When the homeowner went out to search for this mysterious trespasser, he could not find anyone. However, he did discover that one of his game cameras was missing.
Like any law-abiding homeowner, Highlander called the police to report the incident and eventually found out that the intruder was an agent of Virginia’s Department of Wildlife Resources (DWR) and was told that the agency was in its rights for conducting a search and seizure.
An article by journalist Brian McGlinchey also notes that the agent who took Highland’s trail camera was one of three agents who had been creeping through his and his neighbors’ property but had no warrant to make such incursions, much less give them permission to confiscate the man’s trail camera.
maybe next time the wife will just shoot the ahole!
I would bet the DWR agent is a pervert or peeping Tom, otherwise why would he be wearing camouflage and trying to be stealth if he was just doing his appointed job.