$2,000 FINE FOR ILLEGAL DEER HUNTING

[Some Old Guy 968]

A Wabigoon man has been fined $2,000 after pleading guilty to a variety of hunting offences.

The man was fined $1,000 for careless hunting, $500 for providing false information to a conservation officer and $500 for illegal possession of a deer. He has been banned from hunting for one year and must take and pass the Hunter Education course before applying for a hunting licence. The deer was forfeited to the Crown. His firearm will be returned after the fines are paid.

On October 27, 2007, the man was deer hunting east of Dryden when he spotted a deer in the front yard of a home. He shot and killed the deer, dragged it off the property, gutted it down the road and loaded it into his vehicle.

Ministry of Natural Resources Dryden District conservation officers were called to the scene and witnesses identified the man as a possible suspect. The officers spoke with the man at his home and at first he provided a false story about the harvested deer in his possession. However, after officers presented him with evidence they had collected, he confessed.

The case was heard in the Ontario Court of Justice, Dryden, on May 20, 2008.