‘Ghost Deer’ Busts Expose Glaring Hole In Texas Law
Smugglers face small fines for trafficking deer to game ranches in the midst of a chronic wasting disease outbreak.
On March 9 of last year, Game Warden Coty Castro watched a white F-350 with a trailer pass by in the East Texas town of Willis. He pulled the truck over for an expired registration, but had received a tip that the men inside planned to traffic live whitetail deer, according to court records obtained by Public Domain.
Castro asked the two men in the car …
