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"We're happy that our officers caught these individuals before they killed any more deer," said DWR Capt. Tony Wood. "Some of our officers worked 40 hours without sleeping or taking a break. The excellent police work they did saved a lot of deer."Cartier Pasha Quartz CR-155 days of investigative work led officers Sunday night to a business in Murray, where they waited until Birrell and Gutierrez arrived. When the suspects showed up, they had with them a trophy buck that officers believe had been killed just a few hours earlier.

The buck, taken on a general-season hunting unit near Hurricane in Southern Utah, had a "massive" five-by-fourpoint rack measuring nearly 30 inches wide, Wood said."A legal hunter would have been thrilled to take this deer next fall," he said. "The state's deer are Cartier Pasha Quartz Unisex 36mm CR-120 public resource, and poachers are stealing that resource from you."A search of the suspects' homes in Magna and Pleasant Grove, another home in American Fork, and the Murray business where the arrests occurred turned up more sets of antlers, several of which would qualify as trophy kills, Hadley said.

He said most of the poached animals discovered so far were buck deer, although evidence shows the suspects were also targeting does and even a few elk.While standard hunting rifles were the primary weapon used, some were killed using bow and arrow or muzzleloader, he said.Cartier Pasha Quartz Unisex 36mm CR-121 DWR suspects more people have been involved in the poaching."This case is bigger than these two individuals," Wood said.

While operations of such size are unusual in Cartier Quartz CR-66, Hadley said they have become more common in recent years."These people know each other, and they're doing a lot of devastating damage," he said.The DWR has 48 patrol officers statewide who work to eliminate poaching. Hadley said that's not nearly enough manpower to catch all poachers in Utah, and help from the public is needed to bring more cases against those who take animals illegally.