$5500 Reward Nabs Poacher

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The Associated Press

POCATELLO ? A large reward offered in a poaching case in southeastern Idaho that involved the shooting of two pregnant deer has led to a guilty plea by a Utah man.

Tyler Trujillo, 21, of Layton, Utah, pleaded guilty late last week to four counts of killing deer out of season and four counts of waste. He is scheduled to be sentenced June 13 in 6th District Court.

Because the incident was deemed a flagrant violation, Trujillo faces the possibility of losing his hunting and fishing privileges for life not only in Idaho, but also in 20 other states under the Interstate Wildlife Violator Compact.

The reward that eventually led to the tip that led to Trujillo reached $5,500.

"When you put enough money together, it makes people talk," Rick Cheatum of the Southeast Idaho Mule Deer Foundation, which matched each donation of $250 to the Citizens Against Poaching for information leading to a poaching arrest.

Trujillo used a spotlight about 2:40 a.m. on March 25 to shoot two pregnant does, one bearing triplets, and two yearling bucks that were feeding about 200 yards from the home of Larry Bull of Inkom. Bull leaves feed in the field to attract deer.

"It's almost like shooting animals in the zoo," said Cheatum.
 
......just an honest mistake.

JB

"Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote."
--Benjamin Franklin 1759
 
Nice going A-hole, between that guy shooting Does and some lazy ass riding his ATV through winter range sage brush looking for sheds, no wonder everybody hates Utards.
 
"......just an honest mistake."


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Man! MM-land is bringin' the funnay today!

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"I Love Animals...They're Delicious!"
 
This guy really pushed the locals buttons. The field the deer were in is a well known farm near the Pocatello city limits where the owner leaves the last crop of alfalfa and plants corn to attract the deer in the winter. The area the farm is in is near the freeway where there is significant road kill. His farm keeps the deer away from the road.

This poacher came in at 2:30 in the morning with a spotlight and shot 2 deer then came back 20 minutes later and shot 2 more. Because 2 of the deer were pregnant does carrying twins and triplets, the actual number of deer killed was 9. Didn't attempt to take anything, just shot em and left.

The original reward was $250 and grew to $5500 from local hunters and business owners. Money talks and hopefully a message will be sent.
 
Damn fish cops, maybe he was framed. I heard that he plead guilty after the fact because he felt so bad and he's been praying about it since, he reeeeeeaaaaly feels bad about it. He said:

"I'm really sorry I got caught DK'ing those deer. I shouldn't a done it, damn fish cops. At least my buds still like me, I take a mean picture you know?... hey is that a mitigating circumstance?"
 
Goodpoint tylercreek!

"What I could do, I was doing, and that was simply putting my butt on the line for my country, the country that I loved, so that all the protestors and the academics and the liberal intelligentsia back home could enjoy the right to protest against people like me, the hated middleclass." --Gary R. Smith, US Special Forces
 
even better point Colville. LOL

JB

"Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote."
--Benjamin Franklin 1759
 
Man gets prison term for firearm charge, illegal hunting
(PINEDALE Wyo., April 22, 2006)

A man convicted of killing four mule dear out of season was sentenced to two to three years in prison.

Michael Benjamin Acuna, 37, sentenced April 6, 2006 for being a felon in possession of a firearm, received a two- to three-year term in the Wyoming State Penitentiary.

Acuna already had been sentenced to 2 1/2 years in jail for misdemeanor violations wanton destruction of deer, taking deer out of season and using artificial light to take deer during the poaching incident.

Authorities said Acuna admitted he shot four mule deer bucks to vent pent-up rage. Acuna had one deer carcass in his truck when he was stopped, then led officers to three others.

"The poaching occurred in the middle of a large migration route used by thousands of deer to get to their winter range from the highly coveted Sublette Mule Deer herd," said South Pinedale game warden Brian Nesvik. "In the one-evening killings spree, in a violent rage and by his own admission heavily intoxicated, this man killed more buck mule deer than many Wyoming sportsmen harvest in decades of hunting."
 
yeah, what about ole' DK ??? wasn't he supposed to come back to MM and explain to everybody his one time mistake??? maybe I missed it??
 

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