Indiana conservation officers arrested two Florida men Tuesday morning on poaching charges that stemmed from a citizen complaint.

Both men, Lee Hunter, 43, of Perry, Fla., and Bobby Futch, 41, of Steinhatchee, Fla., were charged with four counts of illegally taking deer and one count of using a spotlight while illegally hunting deer.

Hunter and Futch plead guilty in the Switzerland County Circuit Court on Wednesday.

The pair will have to pay $500 reimbursement fines for each deer taken, court costs and possibly more fines. The men must hand over the .22 magnum rifle and equipment they used while poaching the deer.

When the wildlife officers responded to the citizen call, they found Hunter with the rifle, and learned that Futch was afield decapitating a deer that had been taken illegally.

Futch fled the scene on foot, but was eventually apprehended after he turned himself in to the officers.

Authorities later learned the pair illegally killed six additional deer in November in Indiana.

"They weren't killing the deer for the meat or for profit but just for the antlers," Indiana Conservation Officer Cpl. Steve Kinne said. "It was just so they could take the antlers back to Florida and brag about the big deer they shot. The meat was going to waste."

Suspected poaching or illegal activity relating to wildlife can be phoned in at the Turn-In-A-Poacher hotline, (800) TIP-IDNR [(800) 847-4367]. Tips can also be submitted online at TIP.IN.gov.