The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission Division of Law Enforcement Weekly Report from Oct. 6 - Oct. 12 includes incidents in the Lake Okeechobee area. This report represents some events the FWC handled over specified weeks; however, it does not include all actions taken by the Division of Law Enforcement.

Okeechobee County

• Officer Allen and Officer Payne checked 27 hunters on a pay-to-hunt dove field and issued six warnings and one citation. The violations included taking dove with unplugged shotguns, failure to maintain possession of migratory gamebirds, hunting doves without a migratory bird permit and failure to display a hunting license. After the officers checked the hunters, the field was inspected for bait. During the inspection, the officers located what appeared to be sorghum seeds on one side of the field. After further inspection it was found that there were no mature sorghum plants in the field. The landowner was questioned and ultimately issued a notice to appear in court for the baited field.

• Officer Allen received a complaint from a hunter about a utility task vehicle being operated in the Yates Marsh Unit of the Kissimmee River Public Use Area. Upon arriving, Officer Allen observed four subjects operating a UTV near the front gate of the Yates Marsh PUA. After questioning witnesses and the subjects, it was found they did not have a valid permit to access the PUA and they had been operating the UTV inside the PUA. The operator received a notice to appear in court for operating the UTV in the PUA.