FALMOUTH, Mass. — A man who said he was hunting for Thanksgiving dinner is facing charges after police found him Thursday morning with a headless Canada goose on the property of the Lawrence School, according to Falmouth police and state Environmental Police.

Police answered a call at 11:11 a.m. about three people outside the school and arrived to find a man and two women who said they were hunting a Canada goose to prepare for Thanksgiving dinner, according to Falmouth police Lt. Douglas DeCosta. A police report stated the man was armed with a hunting bow and a quiver of arrows, and was holding a goose he had killed, DeCosta said.

“All three were very cooperative and compliant,” DeCosta said. “The man stated he was properly licensed for the current seasonal hunting window for (Canada) goose.”

Once state Environmental Police arrived on the scene, the man and his companions were not allowed to leave with the hunting gear or the goose, according to the report. It also appeared the claim he was licensed for hunting was untrue, DeCosta said.

Environmental Police charged the man with hunting without a federal duck stamp and proper hunter education course, procuring a hunting license via a false statement, hunting within 500 feet of a dwelling, and careless use of a weapon resulting in property damage, according to a Facebook posting by the agency. The names of the man and his companions were not released.

“Further investigation revealed one goose with its head removed and several arrows scattered among the school fields,” the post says.

One arrow had struck a shed, according to the post.