The Brief

The Arizona Game and Fish Department (AZGFD) is looking for suspects in separate poaching incidents near Big Lake in the White Mountains .

It's offering up to a $25,000 reward for information that leads to arrests.

Timeline:

On July 20, AZGFD said three cow elk were found shot and "left to waste" near Forest Roads 249E and 24 . Investigators believe it happened around 8:15 p.m. that day.

Then on July 27, four more elk, three cows and a bull, were found shot dead near " State Routes 273 and 261 near the turnoff to the campground at Big Lake." That incident likely happened around 9:30 p.m.

"In addition, two bighorn sheep rams were discovered shot and left to waste that same day. The animals were found along Forest Road 249 near Three Forks ," AZGFD

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