Hunter Fined $20,000 for Killing Condor
Fri Aug 15, 5:46 PM ET
FRESNO, Calif. - A hunter was ordered to pay $20,000 Friday and sentenced to five years probation for killing an endangered California condor.
Britton Cole Lewis, 29, pleaded guilty in May to shooting the condor, North America's largest land bird according to the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service.
"I can honestly say I knew nothing about these condors," Lewis told a magistrate judge before sentencing. "I sincerely wish I could take back what I've done."
Since 1992, five California condors have been shot and killed. Nearly 200 remain alive today, including 79 in the wild.
Lewis also was fined and sentenced to three years probation for killing a white-tailed deer in Illinois in 2001. Lewis pleaded guilty to falsely saying he was a resident to obtain a hunting permit there. It became a federal crime when he brought the deer's mounted head to California in April 2002.
<font size="4" face="Tempus Sans ITC, Verdana, Arial">So it wasnt the fact that he actually killed the deer..just that he didnt give the state their cut.Originally posted by demon chloe:
Lewis also was fined and sentenced to three years probation for killing a white-tailed deer in Illinois in 2001. Lewis pleaded guilty to falsely saying he was a resident to obtain a hunting permit there. It became a federal crime when he brought the deer's mounted head to California in April 2002.
*rolls eyes*
no.... he purchased the license, dingus...
he just wasn't a state resident.
apparently the white-tails are stocked for
the illinois folk only
my bad [img]redface.gif[/img]
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