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if enacted. Specifically, the legislators wanted to know how many people had been charged with poaching big game within the past seven years, and how many of them were repeat offenders. The list revealed that one individual was convicted of 23 such incidents, two had 21, another two had 19, one with 17 and another had 16. Our man Bucky Sleaze was obviously somewhere on that list, and most recently Law Enforcement Chief Randy Shoup at the Harrisburg headquarters revealed that Bucky had at least 14 convictions in the past seven years, so he is somewhere near the top 10. In 2010, I stopped at a local garage to talk to the owner about a recent repair. WCO Wade Kramer, who was a cadet at the time, was with me. The mechanic kind of laughed when he saw me and pointed back to Sheila Chartreuse, who was standing by a car. Sheila smiled and waved to me and said, “Bucky and I are married now. I’ll bet he was your biggest bust ever.” “No, not really,” I replied. Bucky then appeared from inside the garage. He waved and started walking over. He told Wade and me that he wasn’t poaching anymore. As we drove away Wade asked if I thought he would really stay out of trouble. “Only time will tell,” I said. A while later I was informed by New York State DEC Police that Bucky, who had moved to New York, was under investigation for the unlawful taking of deer. (His Pennsylvania hunting privileges are suspended until 2019.) Last October, I was called by Athens Township Police to the scene of a spotlighting and shooting incident. I met Athens Township Police Officer Roger Clink in a matter of minutes, but there was no vehicle to be found. I told Officer Clink that I would stick around, and I backed in a pullJUNE 2012

off area near where a witness had seen a spotlight working when a shot was fired. Unfortunately, the witness, who called 911, didn’t get a description of the vehicle. They did, however, see the vehicle cross over into New York. About 45 minutes after Officer Clink left the scene a vehicle drove slowly toward me from the New York side. The vehicle was being driven on the wrong side of the road, and a spotlight was meticulously working the field where the shot had been fired, giving me reasonable suspicion that they were involved in the prior shooting. As soon as they passed by me I pulled out with my lights activated and pulled the vehicle over. Three large men jumped out of the small SUV and started to approach my vehicle. I exited and ordered them to stand against their car. I immediately recognized the driver as Moose Sleaze — Bucky’s cousin. I radioed the PGC Northeast dispatch center and gave my location, and then approached the suspects. It was obvious that I was going to come up empty, as Moose politely offered to show me the inside of the car. Other than a spotlight there was nothing else in it. Moose started to joke that he wasn’t like Bucky, which I took to mean Moose just hadn’t been caught yet. I left the scene and went back to the Athens Township Police station to
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