$1,200 FINE FOR LYING AND HAVING LOADED FIREARM IN VEHICLE

[Some Old Guy 968]

A former Sioux Lookout man has been fined $800 for lying to a conservation officer and $400 for having a loaded firearm in a vehicle.

The man from Winnipeg, Manitoba, plead guilty under the Fish and Wildlife Conservation Act. The Crown seized the rifle, which will be returned to him once he pays the fine.

On October 29, 2006, Ministry of Natural Resources Sioux Lookout District conservation officers checked him as he was driving on Highway 516 north of Sioux Lookout. The officers asked him if he had firearms in the vehicle. The man told the officers he had a rifle, which turned out to be loaded after the officers inspected it.

The man told the officers that he had been to a recently logged area to check on equipment for his boss. The officers checked with a forestry company in the area and learned that the man’s employer had not worked for the company in months. The officers also inspected the area and found no operations or equipment.

The case was heard in Ontario Court of Justice, Thunder Bay, on April 8, 2008.