A Fort Carson soldier accused of poaching and wanted after missing a court appearance was arrested Albuquerque last Friday.
Tyrel Lee Weber, 21, is accused of poaching numerous animals, hunting on private land without permission and intentionally abandoning a big-game carcass. The Division of Parks and Wildlife says they investigated him for months, and the case kept getting bigger.
The investigation began in April when fingerprints were taken from a hatchet case found near an antelope buck found poached in El Paso County. Later, investigators were called to a woman’s property after she found numerous animals poached and the locks shot off her gates.
According to court documents, Weber admitted to an investigator that he had poached ten or more antelope overall. When asked why he decided to start shooting antelope, Weber responded that it felt good to have a gun in his hands and do what he was trained to do.
On his Facebook profile, he says “my job is to shoot things.”
Webber is accused of poaching, entering private land to hunt and intentionally abandoning a big game carcass.
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