**MINISTRY OF NATURAL RESOURCES AND FORESTRY NEWS RELEASE**

The Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry is seeking the public’s assistance in identifying the individual or individuals responsible for shooting and abandoning a moose northwest of Timmins.

On Dec. 19, 2018, conservation officers responded to a complaint from a local resident about a dead moose found adjacent to Highway 655, north of Timmins. Officers attended the location and determined that a young bull moose had been shot and abandoned a few days earlier.

If you have any information about this incident, please contact the ministry’s TIPS line at 1-877-847-7667 toll-free any time or call Crime Stoppers anonymously at 1-800-222- TIPS (8477). You can also call the ministry’s Timmins office during regular business hours at (705) 235-1300. Visit Ontario.ca/mnrftips to view an interactive, searchable map of unsolved cases. You may be able to provide information that will help solve a case. 

 

 

–With files from Timmins Today

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