Officials said several incidents happened in residential neighborhoods, where wardens recovered crossbow bolts from front yards and porches.
NEW BRAUNFELS, Texas — A New Braunfels man is facing 74 charges after Texas Game Wardens said he illegally killed at least 13 white-tailed bucks across Comal, Hays and Bexar counties over an 11-month span.
According to Texas Game Wardens, Darrell Maguire, 55, is accused of poaching deer between the fall of 2024 and late summer 2025, often shooting the animals with a crossbow from his vehicle before removing only the heads and leaving the carcasses behind.
The investigation began in June 2025 after multiple white-tailed buck carcasses were discovered in Comal and Hays counties. Officials said several incidents happened in residential neighborhoods, where wardens recovered crossbow bolts from front yards and porches.
Wardens arrested Maguire in September on wildlife and drug possession charges. While serving a search warrant at his home, authorities recovered evidence connecting him to multiple poaching scenes.
Investigators later determined Maguire also allegedly exceeded the annual bag limit during the 2024 hunting season by taking five white-tailed bucks over the legal limit in Bexar County.
From June through September 2025, wardens believe Maguire illegally killed at least eight white-tailed bucks in residential areas across Comal and Hays counties.
The charges against Maguire include hunting without landowner consent, hunting white-tailed deer at night, hunting deer from a vehicle on a public roadway, failure to retrieve and keep deer in edible condition and drug possession charges involving methamphetamine and marijuana.
Officials said the case remains ongoing.