14 DAY TRIAL // A case from Burrell Township, Indiana County, Pennsylvania is making the news – a hunter is being charged for killing a deer while standing in the parking lot at a local supermarket.
At 2:10 p.m. on November 26, 2012, he was in the Resort Plaza Walmart parking area when he spotted a white-tailed deer.
40-year-old Arcangelo Bianco Jr. used a handgun to shoot the animal which he noticed across the Old William Penn Highway.
CCTV footage captured him getting out of his pick-up truck, killing the deer then loading it in the back of his vehicle.
He “began firing multiple rounds at the deer,” the complaint against him states. The exact number of shots has not been specified at this point.
The Indiana Gazette writes that he will have a preliminary hearing on May 1, during which District Judge Jennifer Rega will also hear arguments from the State.
He is facing reckless endangerment charges, apart from his troubles with the Pennsylvania Game Commission that accuses him of hunting without a license, on a highway, with the purpose of taking home big games without proper authorization.
“Obviously, we can’t have someone running through a Walmart parking lot shooting at a deer,” Wildlife Conservation Officer Jack Lucas comments.
The animal carcass has been recovered from the processor and will be entered as evidence in Bianco's trial. Lucas described that investigators uncovered that the deer was actually a trophy 10-point buck, according to the Inquisitr.
“It was the nicest buck I’ve seen taken in Indiana County in a couple of years,” Lucas says.
“The defendant pursued the deer through the parking lot and across Old William Penn Highway, where he killed the deer. The defendant then loaded the deer into his vehicle and took it to a meat processor for butchering,” he details.