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030514 DEER HUNTER GOES TO PRISON

CONROE-- Poachers may want to reconsider their illegal pastime after the latest effort between local game wardens and the Montgomery County District Attorney's Office resulted in a felony arrest on Monday. Assistant District Attorney Rob Freyer praised the efforts of Texas Parks and Wildlife Department Game Warden Brandon Meinkowsky and others announced the arrest of 47-year-old Herbert Joseph Wickham, Jr. of Conroe on two state jail felony charges of "Taking Certain Wildlife Resources Without Consent." According to Freyer, the suspect was the cause of his own demise. "The wardens received a tip that an individual named Herbert Wickham had been bragging about killing more deer than was allowed during a given season," Freyer said. The warrants cited Wickham's illegal hunting on October 12, 2013 and November 9, 2013. Wickham's hunting license was already suspended because of a conviction in a 2012 case when he was caught hunting without the landowner's consent. Freyer said Wickham was hunting on a wooded property on McCaleb Road, off of SH 105 near Montgomery, where game wardens reportedly caught him leaving the with his crossbow. Judge Kathleen Hamilton then signed a search warrant that led to the discovery a motion sensor activated game camera on the property that had captured multiple images of Wickham on the property on multiple occasions, where he was feeding deer and had setup a stand that he used for bow hunting, he said. Adding to Wickham's troubles, his cellphone also contained incriminating photos. "Hunting on somebody's property without their consent is a class A misdemeanor normally," Freyer said, "But killing a deer on somebody's property without their consent is a state jail felony, as is a second violation for hunting without a landowner's consent." Freyer said he commended Game Warden Meinkowsky, who worked very hard on the case and did an "outstanding job." He called all of the game wardens involved "diligent and dedicated." Meinkowsky even returned to the property several times and walked around it to ensure the photos in Wickham's possession were the same property. Wickham was sentenced by 9th District Court Judge Kelly Case on Wednesday to State Jail for a period of 12 months.