CHICORA — A Summit Township man is headed for a possible criminal trial on state game violations.

The Pennsylvania Game Commission alleges that Jeremy R. Yenick, 21, killed deer in excess of bag limits without a valid hunting license during the state’s archery season last fall.

Yenick waived his case to court Tuesday after giving up his right to a preliminary hearing before District Judge Lewis Stoughton in Chicora.

Christopher Deal, a wildlife conservation officer for the game commission, began his investigation Nov. 12 after deer remains and trash were found in the middle of Brook-Devore Road in Summit Township.

“It was determined the parts were from two antlerless deer,” Deal said.

Among the garbage, he said, was an e-mail and work clothes that had Yenick’s name on them, as well as two bloody bolts from a crossbow.

A check of game commission records for Yenick, who lives two miles from where the remains and trash were, showed that he did not have a current hunting license.

Deal and another wildlife officer on Nov. 30 interviewed Yenick, who admitted that he killed the deer while archery hunting in woods behind his house on Herman Road. After taking the meat, he discarded the carcasses on the road.

Yenick, who is free on his own recognizance, is charged with two counts of unlawful taking or killing of big game, both misdemeanors. He also is charged with summary counts of hunting without a license and scattering rubbish.

On each misdemeanor, if convicted, he faces a maximum penalty of six months in county prison and a $3,000 fine.