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Conservation officers have arrested a man for allegedly poaching a deer after he returned to the scene of the killing.

The buck was poached near Sulphurdale in Beaver County. On Friday, the day before the general season deer hunt began, a witness saw a pickup truck, heard a gunshot and then saw a man and woman mark a spot on the road, according to the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources. The man and woman then drove away.

The witness drove to where the two had marked the road and found a dead buck deer, so the witness called it in.

Officers began investigating the case, and on Saturday morning, monitored the area closely. The suspect pickup returned, and a male driver got out and walked around the hillside looking for the buck, according to the wildlife division.

Unable to find the deer, he left and drove southbound on Interstate 15, where officers stopped him. He had a deer permit, but for a different unit, according to the wildlife divison.

"He eventually confessed to killing the buck deer the day before and allowing it to waste," a division news release reads.

The man was arrested and booked into Beaver County Jail under suspicion of wanton destruction of protected wildlife.

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