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Poaching Guilty Pleas
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11/18/17 04:31 AM
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jeffbird
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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
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Re: Poaching Guilty Pleas
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11/19/17 01:05 AM
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fmrmbmlm
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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.
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Re: Poaching Guilty Pleas
[Re: jeffbird]
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11/19/17 02:24 AM
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blackcoal
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Three different posts going about this event.
The Greatest Enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.--Stephen Hawking
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Re: Poaching Guilty Pleas
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11/19/17 04:26 AM
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NDN98
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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. 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.
Last edited by NDN98; 11/19/17 04:26 AM.
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Re: Poaching Guilty Pleas
[Re: jeffbird]
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11/19/17 04:31 AM
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WileyCoyote
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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. JMHO & YMMV Ron [/b][/i]
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It is TIME for Term Limits, cause Politicians are like childrens diapers and for the same reasons...Robin Williams "These are the times that try men's soul's"...Thomas Paine
"Those who fail to learn from History are doomed to repeat it" ....Santayana
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Re: Poaching Guilty Pleas
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11/19/17 11:44 PM
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Google "Chris Fried Texas Game Warden poacher"
"Man is still a hunter, still a simple searcher after meat..." Robert C. Ruark
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Re: Poaching Guilty Pleas
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11/20/17 01:13 PM
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Deerhunter61
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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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Re: Poaching Guilty Pleas
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11/24/17 04:52 PM
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fmrmbmlm
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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. JMHO & YMMV Ron [/b][/i] 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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Re: Poaching Guilty Pleas
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11/25/17 12:59 PM
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sbushee
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That warden should have been fired and charged criminally
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Re: Poaching Guilty Pleas
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11/25/17 01:34 PM
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Thank the Grand Jury process. They look after their own.
One shot is all it should take.
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