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Game Trails Hunting Lodge And Manager To Pay $50,000 Fine For Wildlife Violations
3/27/09
OWENSBORO, KENTUCKY - Game Trails, a Limited Liability Corporation, in Hopkinsville, Kentucky, and William Dirk McTavish, Jr., site manager of Game Trails Lodge near Sturgis, Kentucky, age 43, of Paducah, Kentucky, in McCracken County, were sentenced in United States District Court, Owensboro, Kentucky, for misdemeanor violations of the Lacey Act (Title 16, United States Code, Sections 3372 and 3373), for taking wildlife in a manner unlawful under Kentucky law, and for making false statements to Kentucky Fish & Wildlife about the takings and transporting of wildlife in interstate commerce, Acting U.S. Attorney Candace G. Hill of the Western District of Kentucky announced today.
United States Magistrate Judge E. Robert Goebel in U.S. District Court in Owensboro, Kentucky ordered that Game Trails pay a $35,000 fine and McTavish pay a $15,000 fine. No was jail time imposed upon McTavish.
The defendants pleaded guilty to the charge and were sentenced on the same date. The charges arose out of Game Trails' practice of the killing of does over limit at its lodge at 7616 State Route 365, Strugis, Kentucky, between June 1, 2006 and November 30, 2007, and shipping parts of the wildlife in interstate commerce between Sturgis, Kentucky and Atlanta, Georgia. Game Trails and its agents used the social security numbers of hunters at the lodge without their permission to report the deer as having been legally taken to Kentucky Fish & Wildlife's telecheck program. McTavish was the Lodge Manager at Game Trails Lodge at the time, was aware of and participated in the violations.
The case was prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorney Randy Ream, and it was investigated by the Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources and the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service.
Media Contact:
DAWN MASDEN (502) 582-5911
3/27/09
OWENSBORO, KENTUCKY - Game Trails, a Limited Liability Corporation, in Hopkinsville, Kentucky, and William Dirk McTavish, Jr., site manager of Game Trails Lodge near Sturgis, Kentucky, age 43, of Paducah, Kentucky, in McCracken County, were sentenced in United States District Court, Owensboro, Kentucky, for misdemeanor violations of the Lacey Act (Title 16, United States Code, Sections 3372 and 3373), for taking wildlife in a manner unlawful under Kentucky law, and for making false statements to Kentucky Fish & Wildlife about the takings and transporting of wildlife in interstate commerce, Acting U.S. Attorney Candace G. Hill of the Western District of Kentucky announced today.
United States Magistrate Judge E. Robert Goebel in U.S. District Court in Owensboro, Kentucky ordered that Game Trails pay a $35,000 fine and McTavish pay a $15,000 fine. No was jail time imposed upon McTavish.
The defendants pleaded guilty to the charge and were sentenced on the same date. The charges arose out of Game Trails' practice of the killing of does over limit at its lodge at 7616 State Route 365, Strugis, Kentucky, between June 1, 2006 and November 30, 2007, and shipping parts of the wildlife in interstate commerce between Sturgis, Kentucky and Atlanta, Georgia. Game Trails and its agents used the social security numbers of hunters at the lodge without their permission to report the deer as having been legally taken to Kentucky Fish & Wildlife's telecheck program. McTavish was the Lodge Manager at Game Trails Lodge at the time, was aware of and participated in the violations.
The case was prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorney Randy Ream, and it was investigated by the Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources and the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service.
Media Contact:
DAWN MASDEN (502) 582-5911
