A man has plead guilty to illegally taking deer in Louisa County. According to the Iowa Department of Natural Resources, 30-year-old Ryan Matthew Greiner of Morning Sun plead guilty to nine counts of illegally taking deer and seven counts of abandonment of dead or injured wildlife. Greiner was also ordered to pay $3,120 in fines and $36,000 in liquidated damages for the nine deer, as well as court costs. The charges came after citizens reported to law enforcement deer being shot by rifles and left to rot.

In addition, 19-year-old Treyton Hartman of Yarmouth had been arrested in the case and was found guilty of multiple wildlife-related charges earlier this year.