End of the road for elk who wandered in NEO

PARKMAN, Ohio (AP) — A wandering elk thought to be a fugitive from a Pennsylvania game farm has met its end in northeast Ohio.

WKYC-TV of Cleveland reports the large bull elk turned up Wednesday at a man’s farm in Geauga County, southeast of Cleveland. The animal was killed after Ohio wildlife officials told the man that taking the elk was legal.

Elk are not native to Ohio. The television station reports that those raised in pens can carry disease potentially threatening to Ohio’s deer herd. Meat from the elk that was killed will be tested.

Allen Lea with the Ohio Division of Wildlife says the agency believes the animal escaped from a Pennsylvania game farm more than a month ago and then wandered through several northeast Ohio counties.