Quebec poachers caught in Alberta

bushmaster · Post by **bushmaster** » Mon Feb 20, 2006 7:54 pm

Here's a link to the local newspapers story about 5 deer poachers who pled guilty here to poaching. This happened only a few miles south of my house. I can post a pic if anyone is interested...its of the site identificaion by the police CSI unit.

http://provostnews.ca/thenews/index.html

ecoaster · Post by **ecoaster** » Mon Feb 20, 2006 8:25 pm

Thanks for the link. I really hope they throw the book at them. What a waste. I was really glad to see they were not refered to as hunters. These people are just criminals, that's it.

Normous · Post by **Normous** » Mon Feb 20, 2006 8:45 pm

I would consider then vandals and criminals and I agree, certainly not hunters.

Norm

bushmaster · Post by **bushmaster** » Mon Feb 20, 2006 8:49 pm

They were fined a little over $25,000 and not allowed to hunt here for 5 years. Big deal !!

But what I found so interesting was that it was their own pics and GPS that convicted them.

jay73 · Post by **jay73** » Mon Feb 20, 2006 9:08 pm

There's no excuse for that.

25 grand , eh? That's a fair chunk of change. However between 5 of them, that doesn't seem like enough. The 5 years, big deal. It should be life. They should lose their hunting rights, right there on the spot.

Jay

bushmaster · Post by **bushmaster** » Mon Feb 20, 2006 9:38 pm

The link is to only part of the story, too. These guys had illegally obtained Alberta drivers licences as early as 1996 and were using them to buy hunting licences and bring other hunters in by acting as hunter hosts.

Adrian J Hare · Post by **Adrian J Hare** » Mon Feb 20, 2006 10:06 pm

I'm interested Bushmaster...

bushmaster · Post by **bushmaster** » Mon Feb 20, 2006 10:39 pm

The pic isn't great cause I had to scan it from the newspaper. But our local CO found this site from a waypoint in the poachers GPS. As he approached the general area, he followed the magpies to a deer carcass..left, antlers gone...and then sent a photo of the site and a photo taken by the hunters at the site to the Edmonton police CSI unit. The police proved it was the exact same spot, the lines in the pic are showing the 10 identifying points they used.

LeGrand · Post by **LeGrand** » Tue Feb 21, 2006 9:37 pm

ecoaster · Post by **ecoaster** » Tue Feb 21, 2006 9:41 pm

Well if that is the case, I for one will not give them one red cent. A letter stating my disgust, YES, but not a red cent.

LeGrand · Post by **LeGrand** » Tue Feb 21, 2006 10:04 pm

Brampton Mike · Post by **Brampton Mike** » Wed Feb 22, 2006 5:34 am

I got it from very good sources that it was the Buck Expert crew that got nailed....all the names are in the second part of that newspaper clipping that for some reason we cannot access!!!!!!

Brampton Mike

bushmaster · Post by **bushmaster** » Wed Feb 22, 2006 10:19 am

I'm sorry, I didn't do a very good job of reporting this. You only get part of the story because thats all the paper puts online...so you have to buy a paper.

The five who pled guilty are Remi Poulin, Yvon Poulin, Bernard Metivier, Mario Pepin and Veronique Levesque.

The first 3 were also convicted in Sask. of the same basic charges and were fined $22,500.

Woody Williams · Post by **Woody Williams** » Wed Feb 22, 2006 10:25 am

Were these guys really "hunting celebrities" that got caught?

LeGrand · Post by **LeGrand** » Wed Feb 22, 2006 12:10 pm