N-Dow Nails Poacher, Fines Him and Pulls Hunting License

A Utah man must pay a $20,000 civil penalty for poaching an elk in southeastern Nevada in August 2015. The Nevada Department of Wildlife says 26 year old Zackry Holdaway of Cedar City also loses his hunting and fishing privileges for six years and must serve five years on probation with a suspended 32-month prison sentence hanging over his head if he violates the terms of probation.  NDOW discovered the elk in early September at Pearson Ranch in Lincoln County. Although it had been shot only about a week earlier, the carcass had decomposed to the point there was not much evidence left. The head had been cut off. But a trail camera caught several pictures of the crime.