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Acting on information supplied by another hunter, two men were arrested on Dec. 26, 1986, and charged with trespassing to hunt and hunting within 100 yards of a state road.
On Tuesday, in Rappahannock County General District Court, both were convicted.
According to testimony from Eddie Carroll, who was hunting on adjoining land, Rex Allen Andrews and Charles Frederick Yates stopped a pickup truck they were operating on Rt. 637 and shot a deer from the roadway. They retrieved the deer from a field and put it into the back of the truck.
Mr. Carroll said that he was able to identify both men because, after unloading his weapon, he observed the men through the telescopic sight of his deer rifle. He followed the men in his vehicle and got both the truck’s license number and a description of the men and the vehicle.
Unsure of what to do next, Mr. Carroll followed the men into Fauquier County, where he passed a house with a Sheriffs Department cruiser sitting in the driveway. He stopped at the house and asked the deputy, Helen Hahn, to accompany him.
She stopped the truck as it drove back out the dead end road. She identified herself to the men and asked them to wait for the game warden to arrive.
The men refused, and saying they would be back in a few minutes, drove off. They never returned.
Because Mr. Carroll had noted the truck’s license number and a description of the two men, Game Warden Jim Bankston was able to identify the two individuals. He issued the hunting citations.
Warden Bankston and Commonwealth’s Attorney Peter Luke credited Mr. Carroll’s responsibility as a hunter and his willingness to cooperate with the prosecution for the fact that the two were convicted. “Mr. Carroll went to a lot of trouble” to report the incident, Mr. Luke said. “This case shows that when citizens —other hunters — are willing to identify people, to write down li
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