Below is a Facebook post from the New Mexico Department of Game and Fish. For 2024-2025, Fiocchi partnered with the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation to increase the visibility of poaching incidents in an effort to reduce poaching.
Officers need your help investigating an egregious case of poaching. Three cow elk were shot and left to waste in GMU 21A, west of Poverty Creek on NM Highway 59 near mile post 10 on approximately November 17. There was not an anterless elk hunt scheduled at that time and all meat was left to waste.
Officers are looking for anyone with information on who may have witnessed this crime or knows who was involved.
Please call the Operation Game Thief hotline at 1-800-423-4263 or submit a report on our website. All reports can be made anonymously and a cash reward is available for information leading to conviction.
(Photo credit: New Mexico Department of Game and Fish)