Poaching tip leads to arrest-Rowan county KY

Frankfort, Ky. – It all started when a conservation officer for the Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources received a tip about illegal deer kills in Rowan County.

Today, a Rowan County man is free on a $7,500 full cash bond and awaiting arraignment after conservation officers charged him Feb. 20 with a total of 48 counts, including illegally killing deer, cultivating and trafficking in marijuana and drugs, possession of drug paraphernalia, pills in improper containers and trapping without a license.

Officers arrested Kevin Watkins, 35, of Morehead at his residence and lodged him in the Rowan County Detention Center. Officers executed a search warrant after Conservation Officer Glenn Kitchen received a tip that Watkins had killed three deer illegally.

During the search, Kitchen, joined by Kentucky Fish and Wildlife Captain Paul Teague, Sergeant Herb Booth and Conservation Officers Loren Clark and Andrew Black, seized 94 sets of deer antlers, seven marijuana plants, indoor grow lights, a cloning system, 16 bags of processed marijuana totaling nearly 1½ pounds, more than 100 pills in plastic bags, four sets of weighing scales, 19 firearms and $1,251 in cash.

Watkins is scheduled for arraignment in Rowan District Court March 11 before District Judge Donald Blair.

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Only the finest folks can be poachers.

I'm not sure what the final punishment will be but anything less than being banned from hunting and fishing rights for life with a hefty penalty and jail time is getting off easy in my book. A fella like this was or has been doing alot of other things but didn't get caught. Sounds like he has no respect for any laws or anyone else for that matter.