Terrebonne man charged in illegal mule deer kill

A 54-year-old Terrebonne man was arrested on charges he illegally harvested a trophy-class mule deer and hunted on the enclosed lands of another, Oregon State Police said Wednesday.

OSP Fish and Wildlife troopers in Central Oregon received information on Monday about the mule deer killed on Sunday under suspicious circumstances in the Metolius Wildlife Management Unit, said Lt. Josh Brooks.

The unit is in Deschutes and Jefferson counties, and the killing occurred in the Deschutes County portion, said Lt. Lowell Lea, fish and wildlife trooper

Members of the team began an investigation and soon contacted Danny Davidson, who Brooks said “ultimately provided a full confession to the illegal harvest of the buck deer,” Brooks said.

Lea said Davidson “used a rifle during a bow season and didn’t have a tag. And he trespassed.”

Davidson was lodged in the Deschutes County Jail shortly after 10 p.m. Monday and released just over an hour later, having met release criteria, a jail officer said.