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Poaching Guilty Pleas #6964491 11/18/17 04:31 AM
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Three Texas men have pleaded guilty to criminal charges after they each poached a trophy whitetail buck, in three separate incidents, with a combined Boone & Crockett (B&C) score of over 535 inches.

A press release by the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (TPWD) said the men — John Walker Drinnon, 34, Timothy Kane Sweet, 37, Brian Eugene Culp, 47, — killed two 19-point bucks and a 10-point buck respectively and ended up having to pay civil restitution worth well over $34,000.

http://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/...#photo-14566024

Re: Poaching Guilty Pleas [Re: jeffbird] #6965239 11/19/17 01:05 AM
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And the game warden caught at least 3 times hunting illegally and shot a trophy buck was fined $800 and kept his job.

Re: Poaching Guilty Pleas [Re: jeffbird] #6965312 11/19/17 02:24 AM
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Three different posts going about this event.


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Re: Poaching Guilty Pleas [Re: fmrmbmlm] #6965412 11/19/17 04:26 AM
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Originally Posted By: fmrmbmlm
And the game warden caught at least 3 times hunting illegally and shot a trophy buck was fined $800 and kept his job.

Link?

Only GW I knew about hunting illegally was the one who was shot close to Cooper WMA, but don't remember him getting a trophy buck.

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Re: Poaching Guilty Pleas [Re: jeffbird] #6965414 11/19/17 04:31 AM
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Nah .. did not kill a trophy buck...just hunting illegally on several counts and got a pattycake penalty from what I remember, many times less serious than Joe Average Schmuck would have...Just Sayin a bad case of
"Noblise Oblige" on display.
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Re: Poaching Guilty Pleas [Re: jeffbird] #6965941 11/19/17 11:44 PM
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Google "Chris Fried Texas Game Warden poacher"


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Re: Poaching Guilty Pleas [Re: jeffbird] #6966364 11/20/17 01:13 PM
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The game warden stuff I hadn't heard of but it goes directly to the issue of trust! When the law enforcement agencies DO NOT apply the law the same to one of their own as they do to average Joe then how is average Joe going to trust them?

"Switched from off duty to on duty moments before" biggest bunch of BS I've ever read!

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Agree 100%

Re: Poaching Guilty Pleas [Re: WileyCoyote] #6971250 11/24/17 04:52 PM
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Originally Posted By: WileyCoyote
Nah .. did not kill a trophy buck...just hunting illegally on several counts and got a pattycake penalty from what I remember, many times less serious than Joe Average Schmuck would have...Just Sayin a bad case of
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There was a picture of him with a big trophy buck from a previous illegal hunt, but he donated the meat, so that should count for something according to him.

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That warden should have been fired and charged criminally

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