Andresito: They locate and fined a Brazilian citizen for crushing and killing a tapir on the provincial highway 19

The animal, declared a provincial historic monument, was crushed inside Urugua-i Provincial Park in the Uruzu region. Alerted by the ecology staff, the police set up an operation to find the vehicle that caused the death of the tapir. They found the abandoned road in a rural area of ​​Andresito.

On Sunday morning, police officers were alerted by the staff of the ecology control post located on Provincial Highway 19 of the pbadage and death of an anta animal or tapir, male and about 100 kg. Immediately, a lock operation was organized in the area, where the police began raking places and settlements. In a property located at kilometer 13 of Andresito, the police identified a Volkswagen vehicle, model Suran, black, bearing a Brazilian license plate. The vehicle was showing signs of involvement in a traffic accident because of the material damage it had suffered in the front.

Rural worker Héctor R. (23 years old) told the authorities that he had helped a stranger arrived home, claiming to have crushed a horse. According to the worker's story, the driver left the car there and left.

Instead the URV science police carried out the first expert reports in the rolled up detecting mantles of what could be a wild animal.

Later, at the police station, a man identified as Ademir B. (53), residing in Dionisio Cerqueira (Brazil), said he had participated in a car accident and hit a horse a few minutes earlier. 39, equino would be no longer in place.

The motorist was put at the disposal of the court for the offense of "hunting", thus recovering his freedom, insofar as the vehicle was kidnapped and made available to Ecology, together with the performance with a view to later resolution of the fine that will relapse on the driver for damage to missionary wildlife.

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