I wrote my last MDC column about how a man and his son had a 19-point buck confiscated by an MDC agent name Clare Burch. Here is the letter he sent to the MDC chief of enforcement with the form they require. This is his attempt to recover the valuable set of antlers after the whole charge and citation was dismissed in court. Want to know what MDC’S wardens are like? Read this letter... from Joe DeAngelo
To whom it may concern... After my son's deer was loaded on the truck we were going home and past Matthew Gingrich (an Amish farmer) on the road. We came home to start getting the meat in the cooler on ice because it was almost 60 degrees and couldn’t hang overnight. So we got it all cut up and was getting rid of the bone and carcass. And right before we got back Matt called Ray and told him he called the MDC on him because if he (Gingrich) couldn’t get that deer he (Ray-my son) shouldn’t have it either. We got home and Clair (MDC agent) was waiting there. She asked about the deer and where it was. I told her we had to process it and was in the cooler in my garage. She went in my garage, opened up the cooler and then was asking why we processed it so fast. I told her because it was way too warm to let that deer hang.
When she was standing in my barn, I watched her key the radio and call for a thermal drone. There was 3 of us that heard and seen her do it. So then she asked us about what was going on and where the rest of the deer carcass and remains was. So I took her out there to it. When we got to where the carcass was, the officer from Lafayette County came out there also. I didn’t get his name. And at this point we had been up for two and half days with no sleep. They were calling me a liar for cutting it up so fast. I would think your agents would know better. It was 60°! You can’t let something hang. So the 2 1/2 hour interrogation went on and on asking us the same question 10 different ways. They knew we were worn out and exhausted. That shouldn’t have happened till the next day. We went back to where she took the meat and the hide and the head. She put all that good meat in a scented garbage bag.
She asked why we didn’t tag the deer when we got to him and Ray told her because there was no service there. When he got service, it went through. Nope she said that wasn’t true and we were lying. I told her go back over there and she would see there was no service but nope. The Lafayette County agent was calling us liars about the broad-head shot through the shoulder and was ready to take me down with a severe attitude because I was telling him it was shot with an arrow through the shoulder. So I finally called Raymond after being called a liar multiple times he seen Raymond coming over there and started screaming him to get back in the truck. I said hey man, he’s the one that shot the deer he’s the hunter he need to show you something so that changed his attitude. Raymond showed him the video of the deer with the arrow clearly protruding out of its body and then that changed his tone after us being called liars multiple times I was just about done with them at this point. I’m a businessman in Ray County. I’ve lived here my entire life. I’ve hunted for 32 years with never having a problem. I’ve run a business for almost 18. I have never been dehumanized and called a liar like that in my life not even close. I was ticketed Sunday for illegal transportation of a carcass and for the use of a drone. I’m sure you see all the charges that they liked to pile on.
My problem with the whole thing is when Clare got down to my 17-year-old’s face and told him this was gonna sting. Wasn’t it losing that deer she tried provoking an altercation with a minor… I know two other people she has done this too, and then she tried pressing charges on them for intimidating a law-enforcement officer when they blew up on her this is her game. Pretty disgusting and sad! We were harassed for 12 days with a drone. I called Clair. She denied having a drone that wouldn’t stop so I finally called the Ray County sheriff and made a report and then it stopped. I had called Jade I guess in Northeast Mo he denied that you guys had a drone two days straight. The drone was lined up with my living room window. My kids saw it one evening from my living room.
Sunday morning I went back out to Calvin‘s where we hunted at 5 AM and there were drones in the sky. I seen two and MDC denies it. So if the MDC does not have drones, she had to call in a third-party because three of us heard her do it and seen her do it, and we all witnessed the drones and harassment. I have video of them over my farm and house. People here are sick of the double standard. She violated and abused the fourth amendment right for sure. She had no right to enter my garage. Our privacy was violated for days and days. my advice to people to ask me is to plead the fifth not tell your agent a word and get a lawyer because all they do is dehumanize you and make you look like a monster that you’re not. Not only did she keep the deer that was tagged in before she took it. So that Ray lost his buck tag also and couldn’t hunt the last 3 weeks of the best part of bow season too.
Also last January we were checked three days in a row by Clare on the same farm with the same truck. She actually came a fourth time to check us and my brother called her and asked her if she was just harassing us so not really sure what her problem has been but she’s never had a reason to have a problem. we are not law breaking poachers like they want to make us to be. We have abided by the law, our entire lives. I feel like fair is fair if you’re gonna make the people walk this straight and narrow with no common sense used in any situation than the people should make sure the MDC is also walking straight and narrow by the law. Both my grandfather’s were US Marines, and then went on to be New York City police, which they both retired. Always had the most respect for law-enforcement. But not gonna lie after being scrutinized like this I know how the minorities feel now and understand why they feel the way they do sorry to say. You would never understand until you were treated in this way I never understood either until then.
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