Opinion No. Oag 50-85, (1985)

C.D. BESADNY, Secretary Department of Natural Resources

You have asked whether state and county conservation wardens, while in fresh pursuit of a suspected offender, may legally enter the Menominee Indian Reservation and arrest a Menominee Indian suspect for an off-reservation violation of state law, whether the potential charges include a felony, a misdemeanor or a violation punishable only by a civil forfeiture. Implicit in your inquiry is the question of whether, and to what degree, the state's personal jurisdiction over a suspect thus arrested is dependent upon compliance with tribal…