Mississippi deer poachers ordered to pay nearly $120,000 in Southern Illinois

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Mississippi deer poachers ordered to pay nearly $120,000 in Southern Illinois

Thursday, the United States Attorney's Office for the Southern District of Illinois announced that five men from Mississippi were sentenced after admitting to using spotlights to illegally hunt white-tailed deer in Massac, Jefferson, Union, Pope and Clark counties.

Poachers get heavy fine for spotlight hunting deer in southern Illinois | Illinois State Bar Association

Poachers get heavy fine for spotlight hunting deer in southern IllinoisFive Mississippi men have been fined thousands and sentenced to years of probation after they used illegal hunting methods to poach deer in five southern Illinois counties, the U.S. Attorney’s Office announced Thursday. Source: Belleville News-Democrat

Deer poachers fined in southern Illinois

Submitted PhotoOUT-OF-STATE DEER POACHERS — Five Mississippi men were sentenced in southern Illinois federal court this week after admitting to using spotlights to illegally hunt white-tailed deer in Jefferson, Massac, Union, Pope and Clark counties. JEFFERSON COUNTY — Five Mississippi men were sentenced in southern Illinois federal court this week after admitting to using spotlights to illegally hunt white-tailed deer in Jefferson, Massac, Unio…

Mississippi Deer Poachers Ordered to Pay Nearly $120K in Southern Illinois

BENTON, Ill. – Five men from Mississippi were sentenced in southern Illinois federal court after admitting to using spotlights to illegally hunt white-tailed deer in Massac, Jefferson, Union, Pope and Clark counties. Lee J. Johnson, 54, of Saucier, Mississippi, pleaded guilty to one count of unlawful transport of wildlife in violation of the Lacey Act and was sentenced to five years’ probation and ordered to pay $75,000 in restitution and a $10,…