West Virginia Natural Resources Police said officers in Upshur, Webster and Randolph counties have been busy citing hunters illegally hunting bear with bait.
More than a dozen hunters were cited following investigations, according to a news release posted on Natural Resources Police’s Facebook page. Officers waited nearly four hours on Tuesday, Sept. 21, after finding a bait site near Cheat Mountain Wildlife Management area and saw five people move into the bait site. All five were cited for hunting bear with the use of bait. Two others were cited on baiting-related charges. Police said one of the suspects also was charged earlier in the year for hunting turkey with the use of bait.