Published on: 11/06/2025
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OSP Game report - Polk County, Ore. (Nov. 5, 2025)- The Oregon State Police Fish and Wildlife Division is asking for the public’s assistance in identifying individual(s) involved in the unlawful take of deer in Polk County. On Friday, October 24th, 2025, a landowner overheard three gunshots on his private property located off Burbank Road and Gage Road in rural Polk County. The landowner drove down the road and observed an older white Dodge or Chrysler Town and Country style minivan with both driver and passenger doors ajar parked on the county road next to his property. No occupants were observed near the vehicle. The minivan was later observed by the landowner driving east on Burbank Road towards Highway 223. Polk County deputies arrived on scene and located two deceased (doe) deer on the landowner’s property. An Oregon State Police (OSP) Fish and Wildlife trooper arrived on scene, and field dressed the deer. The deer were delivered to the Salem Union Gospel Mission for food donation. Investigation remains open. Anyone with any information is asked to call the Turn-In-Poachers (TIP) line at 1-800-452-7888, *OSP (*677) from a mobile phone, or email [email protected]. Please reference case number #SP25-446304. Clackamas County, Ore. (Nov. 5, 2025)- The Oregon State Police Fish and Wildlife Division is asking for the public’s assistance in identifying individual(s) involved in the unlawful take of four deer, which were butchered and subsequently dumped and wasted off South Elwood Road outside Colton, Oregon, Clackamas County. On Tuesday, November 4th, 2025, a reporting party located a large amount of deer meat and front and rear deer quarters thrown into the bushes off South Elwood Road, just east of South Benzinger Road in Colton. An Oregon State Police (OSP) Fish and Wildlife trooper arrived on scene and located the decaying remains of four deer that had been butchered elsewhere and taken to the area where the parts were thrown into dense vegetation on Port Blakely Tree Farm property. Three of the deer were discovered to have been killed with archery equipment. The deer parts were likely dumped in the area between Friday, October 31st, 2025, and Sunday, November 2nd, 2025. Anyone with any information is asked to call the Turn-In-Poachers (TIP) line at 1-800-452-7888, *OSP (*677) from a mobile phone, or email [email protected]. Please reference case number #SP25-457045.
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