ILLEGAL BULL MOOSE COSTS FIVE MEN $12,300

[Some Old Guy 968]

Three Dryden men and two Wisconsin men have been fined $12,300 after pleading guilty to a variety of offences in the illegal killing of a bull moose.

A man from Wisconsin, and a man from Dryden, were each fined $2,000 for illegally hunting a bull moose, $1,000 for illegal possession of a bull moose and $1,000 for illegally transporting a bull moose.

A second man from Dryden, was fined $1,000 for each of three offences: providing false information to a conservation officer, illegally possessing a moose and illegally transporting a moose.

All three men have been banned from hunting for one year. The man from Wisconsin forfeited the mounted moose head to the Crown, and the two men from Dryden forfeited the moose meat.

A second man fromWisconsin, was fined $500 for illegal possession and $500 for illegal transportation of a moose.

A third man from Dryden, was fined $300 for providing false information to a conservation officer.

Conservation officers were aided in their investigation by the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.

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