CHARLOTTE, N.C. — A large pile of dead coyotes was discovered behind a subdivision in a North Carolina city, and a wildlife officer thinks they were brought from a different location after a hunt.
North Carolina wildlife enforcement officer Sampson Parker said Monday that 73 carcasses were piled in a heap on the ground next to a ditch which leads to a stream in Charlotte. Two residents found them last Thursday on the site of an old wastewater treatment plant. The city bought the property and locked it up.
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Mecklenburg County workers say there is no evidence the carcasses impacted the water.
Parker says an investigation shows someone brought the coyotes from a large hunt. He says the coyotes should have been taken to a landfill.