On August 28, 2015 at around 3:00pm, Soukapane Arthur Max and Bazock Ulrich were arrested by rangers in possession of pieces of gorilla meat. On August 27, both were in their camp when they heard a gorilla screaming. They took a weapon and went to the forest and on their way they came across one known as Sylvain, a hunter who took the weapon and when they arrived to the place Sylvain killed the gorilla. After the killing, Sylvain decided to hide the animal and do the sharing later to avoid rangers. The following day Bazock Ulrich went to call for Soukapane to cut the animal into pieces but the latter was drunk. Bazock was then arrested by rangers and he brought them to the camp where he was living with Soukapane. When Soukapane saw the rangers coming he put his caliber 12 gun on the head of a ranger.