By Sharyn L. Decker
Lewis County Sirens news reporter
CHEHALIS – The Yakima Herald-Republic reports a 76-year-old Lewis County resident has been charged with second-degree unlawful hunting of big game in connection with allegedly shooting the biggest bull elk in the Kittitas Valley near Ellensburg, in a location closed to such hunting and moving it to a private field where it would have been legal.
News reporter Scott Sandsberry writes that Tod Reichert, 76, of Salkum, has a pre-trial hearing in Lower Kittitas District Court on May 31, despite his Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife’s special eastside elk auction tag for which he paid $75,000.
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