Earlier this month, state Department of Environmental Conservation officers George Lapoint and Alan Brassard assisted the Maine Warden Service in its investigation of a deer shot from the road in Allagash, Maine. The MWS investigation determined the deer was shot by a Glens Falls man who had returned to New York the same night.

Lapoint and Brassard interviewed the subject and obtained a confession after presenting evidence from the MWS. On Friday, Jan. 18, Brassard served the suspect, on behalf of the MWS, with paperwork charging him with unlawful shooting/discharge from a public highway, unlawful possession of a wild animal, passing a tagging station without tagging a deer, and unsworn falsification.

The suspect reportedly did not violate New York law.