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Post by Woody Williams on Sept 21, 2008 11:10:12 GMT -5
This is one day's massacre over a baited pond. They have been identified and charged. When I hear more, I’ll post it.  |
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Post by Noblebowhunter on Sept 21, 2008 12:13:25 GMT -5
You have gotta be kiddin me.... So glad they got caught!
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Post by duff on Sept 21, 2008 13:57:04 GMT -5
That's a lot of wood for one day!!!! Wonder if it was the LEO or the hunter who took that picture?
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Post by matahone on Sept 21, 2008 14:24:55 GMT -5
That sickens me..., I am glad they got caught. I hope they rot in jail, but they are probably already out..., hunting ducks!!!!
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Post by Woody Williams on Sept 21, 2008 14:37:33 GMT -5
What is ironic is the Ducks Unlimited logo on the back glass of the truck.
Maybe they took that "literally"??
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Post by jim1966 on Sept 21, 2008 18:05:28 GMT -5
Unbelievable.
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Post by hoosierdhr on Sept 21, 2008 20:03:59 GMT -5
well wood duck #s were up. Maybe we will have to rethink the three woodie limit b/c of these morans
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Post by jwkimber45 on Sept 22, 2008 8:17:20 GMT -5
F'in idiots.
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Post by bsutravis on Sept 27, 2008 2:40:32 GMT -5
Unreal..... looks like a majority are hens too. I'd say fine them $1000 per duck plus time in the pen....and lifetime suspension of hunting license.
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Post by homeslice5177 on Sept 27, 2008 12:51:39 GMT -5
Lotsa woodies....maybe thats why they gave us another this year
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Post by Woody Williams on Dec 21, 2008 17:30:54 GMT -5
Poachers pay price for duck hunting
Eleven plead guilty in Benton County court
By Bob Hodge (Contact)
Sunday, December 21, 2008
A big poaching case in West Tennessee has ended with those involved paying some big penalties.
Eleven of 12 individuals charged with shooting 169 wood ducks - 121 more than the legal two-day bag limit for 12 hunters - have pleaded guilty to shooting over the bag limit and hunting over bait in Benton County General Sessions Court.
They were charged during the September wood duck season after one of the individuals showed cell phone pictures of the ducks that had been killed to another hunter. The hunter who saw the photos tipped off the Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency.
Seven were fined $669 plus court costs and were required to pay $2,000 in restitution and had their hunting privileges stripped for four years.
Five of the seven - Joel Rumsey, Chase Scurlock, Jacob Scurlock, Matthew Warren and Jeff Warren - live in Waverly. Brad Mangrum lives in McEwen and Charles Banes lives in Burns.
Bill Mashaw of New Johnsonville and Brian Lee of Waverly lost their hunting privileges for a year, paid $669 in fines plus court costs and have to pay $200 in restitution.
Monty Daniel of New Johnsonville will appear in court Jan. 7 and a juvenile involved in the case was sentenced to unsupervised probation until his 18th birthday.
"I am satisfied with the case and very pleased with the work officers did to bring these poachers to the court system," said Gary Cook, manager of TWRA's Region I. "In the end we can only do that . . . bring it to the court system."
So far Christopher Cole of Camden has paid the biggest price.
Cole was a rookie officer with the Jackson Police Department when he was charged, but did not report the incident to his supervisors. He was suspended from his job Nov. 5.
He pleaded guilty to two counts of shooting over the limit and hunting over bait Nov. 12 and was fined $400, required to pay $2,000 and was stripped of his hunting privileges for seven years.
Two days later he resigned from the police department.
After getting the tip, TWRA officers found the men hunting a pond near the Big Sandy River on Sunday, Sept. 14. The pond had been baited with shelled corn.
Some of the pictures the poachers took with their cells made their way onto the Internet.
Because Tennessee is a member of the Interstate Wildlife Violator Compact, the men cannot purchase licenses in five of the states bordering Tennessee while their hunting privileges are suspended.
Poacher Gets Life: Jimmy Daniel Prater of Waynesboro has been stripped of his hunting privileges for life after his third poaching conviction.
Wayne County Circuit Court Judge Robert Jones also sentenced Prater to 80 days in jail and he must pay $3,200 in fines and court costs. Prater's offenses include spotlighting deer, hunting in a closed season, falsifying a kill tag and hunting on a revoked license.
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Post by chicobrownbear on Dec 21, 2008 19:42:27 GMT -5
Thats a lot of Wood Ducks. I think those woodies are worth more than what they got.
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Post by uglyduckling on Dec 21, 2008 22:01:45 GMT -5
I wonder why this wasn't prosecuted on the federal level. Fines for baiting are now $100,000 plus ten years. They got off EASY.
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Post by hountzmj on Dec 22, 2008 10:50:13 GMT -5
I was wondering that too Kevin...
Maybe is has something to do with the arresting officer? Who they were and their jurisdiction?
--hountzmj
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Post by jwkimber45 on Dec 22, 2008 11:28:57 GMT -5
I wonder why this wasn't prosecuted on the federal level. Fines for baiting are now $100,000 plus ten years. They got off EASY. Yes they did, typicall slap on wrist from our lovely judicial system. What a crock of  |
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Post by featherduster on Dec 22, 2008 21:22:03 GMT -5
They might have taken them to state court so they could suspend their state hunting lic.
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Post by trapperdave on Dec 23, 2008 14:11:47 GMT -5
UNBELIEVABLE!
Thats not even a slap on the wrist,,,closer to a pat on the back
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Post by trapperdave on Dec 23, 2008 14:13:51 GMT -5
taking a hunting license away from a poacher is akin to taking a personnal protection permit from a gangbanger
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Post by tickman1961 on Dec 23, 2008 15:56:58 GMT -5
What a waste....
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Post by bsutravis on Dec 25, 2008 6:09:54 GMT -5
That makes me sick that they got off that easily...
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