About 9.20pm on March 15, Tumut Police conducted enforcement operations with National Parks rangers in the Long Plain area of Kosciuszko National Park.
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A blue Toyota Hilux was stopped on Long Plain Road near the Port Phillip Trail.
The vehicle had duct tape covering the front and rear number plates. The vehicle had a dog cage containing four adult pig dogs fitted with breastplates and GPS tracking collars.
A search was conducted of the vehicle and two hunting knives and a battery powered grinder were located and seized along with four tracking collars. Police suspect the grinder was to be used to cut padlocks on locked gates within the National Park.
A number of recent malicious damage offences have been reported to police relating to padlocks being cut in such a manner.
Following the operation, a 19-year-old Humula man and a 24-year-old Tumbarumba man were issued more than $3200 in penalty notices for the following offences:
- Being accompanied by a dog in a nature reserve $300 x 2
- Possessing a hunting knife in a park $500
- Having control of dog with hunting collar/breast plate/tracking equipment in park $500 x 2
- Driving in a park without number-plate as prescribed $300
- Carrying angle grinder/cutting equipment in park $500
- Companion animal not registered as prescribed $305.
Police will be conducting further enforcements in the northern Kosciuszko National Park in the coming months.
f anyone has any information in relation to illegal hunting or other offences within the Kosciuszko National Park, please call Tumut Police on 6947 7199 or Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000.
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Annie Lewis
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