Blogger Amy Cooper reports:
"Alfred Craft of West Monroe, LA, recently received a five-year prison sentence along with a $50,000 fine, a bill for $11,000 in restitution to the state of Arkansas, and (I really like this part) a bill for the $23,000-per-year cost of his incarceration."
Read the rest of her blog here
Correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't Britton Cloe Lewis, the Kern Co. idiot that killed AC8 in February 2003, get off quite a bit lighter?? Lewis was also tried and found guilty under the Migratory Bird Act. "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." Lewis claimed to not know he had shot a condor, he said he thought it was a "buzzard". He was fined $20,000, forfeited his firearm and given five years probation and ordered to perform 200 hours community service. 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. Lewis was not charged with violating the U.S. Endangered Species Act, apparently because of a little-known 1998 Justice Department policy that seeks a higher level of proof in such cases, according to a source familiar with the investigation. Essentially a defendant must know the animal was endangered, said the source, who asked for anonymity because it is a pending legal matter. If you want to read up on Britton Cole Lewis, here you go.
