I'd advise anyone NOT to trespass to make a citizens arrest anywhere, anytime. Yer asking for trouble....
call the GW and let him handle it, it's what they get paid for.
Furthermore my advise to most folks is to call the GW if you see someone on your land hunting without permission. Again, it's what the GW gets paid for, and what they do all that training for.
And, most important, a POACHER will give a private citizen a LOT more trouble that that same poacher will give a GW in uniform. PERIOD. Been there, done that. Over the years I caught a bunch of poachers when I was off duty hunting on my own. Almost to a man they gave me a hard time till I convinced them I WOULD shoot them if it came to that. Most folks aren't willing to go there, and shouldn't be confronting poachers.
troy
Did you ever tell anyone you could'nt do anything about a crime because it wasn't committed in your presence, even when the person that reported it to you saw the crime in progress?
I don't think these guys understand the difference in arrest
with a warrant, and arrest
without a warrant.
Can you think of any reason why this person who repeatedly sees a neighbor hunting over bait cannot take pictures as evidence to support his testimony, or even get other witnesses to participate and coroborate his testimony, and then swear out a warrant for the viloator's arrest without trespassing, fighting, getting shot at or even confronting the violator until he has been arrested?
