OSP: Sweet home man poached bighorn sheep, bobcat, deer

SWEET HOME, Ore. -- Oregon State Police arrested a Sweet Home-area man on charges related to the death of a bighorn sheep in eastern Oregon. Wildlife agents are trying to find out how the bighorn sheep died and how the suspect came into possession of a bobcat hide.

The investigation began three weeks ago after OSP Fish & Wildlife Division troopers in eastern Oregon got a report that a bighorn sheep was killed in late May in the Snake River area near Richland. The investigation led OSP troopers to serve a search warrant July 28  at a Sweet Home-area address and the subsequent arrest of Enoch Ray Robertson, 30, after troopers seized evidence including bighorn sheep horns and a bobcat hide.

Robertson was transported to the Linn County Jail where Senior Trooper James Halsey cited and released him on charges of unlawful possession of bighorn sheep, unlawful possession of a bobcat hide, taking a blacktail doe deer in closed season and possession of less than an ounce of marijuana.