A multi-year wildlife investigation has concluded with the sentencing of an Idaho Falls man who illegally obtained Wyoming resident hunting licenses and killed multiple trophy animals across western Wyoming.

It started with a few whispered tips and ended with a wall of trophy antlers seized by wardens. For years, Rodney Gilstrap of Idaho Falls lived a double life—Idaho resident by address, “Wyoming hunter” by paperwork.

Between 2018 and 2021, Gilstrap faked being a Wyoming resident to illegally snag easy-to-get resident hunting licenses. While legitimate nonresidents were saving up preference points, he was driving south to Wyoming’s mountains, shooting trophy mule deer, elk, and pronghorn—then heading home across the border as if nothing had happened.

But Game Warden James Hobbs of Aft

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