Indiana Conservation Officers were busy in Clay County recently, arresting a Brazil man and another individual for poaching wild turkeys in Clay County. 

Dylan T. Shaw, 22, of Brazil, and Wyatt N. McKenzie, 25, of Staunton, were arrested after a Conservation officer observed a pickup truck entering and leaving a Clay County field several times before parking on the edge of a county road. Officer Kaley McDonald approached the truck to discover two wild turkey carcasses in the open truck bed. 

An investigation by McDonald discovered that Shaw and McKenzie had each killed a wild turkey. Shaw had not purchased the required turkey hunting license and neither turkey had been registered in the Indiana online check-in system, as is required by law. 

Shaw was arrested on charges of illegal possession of wild turkey, failure to check in wild turkey and operating a motor vehicle while intoxicated. 

McKenzie was arrested on charges of illegal possession of wild turkey, failure to check in wild turkey and false reporting/false informing. 

Both men were arrested and transported to the Clay County Jail, and the wild turkeys were seized.