GAME COMMISSION CATCHES UP WITH FRANKLIN COUNTY POACHER
Pennsylvania Game Commission Wildlife Conservation Officer Barry A. Leonard, of Franklin County, recently charges Jonathan D. Goshorn, 33, of Fannettsburg, with 23 counts of unlawful taking or possession of deer.
If convicted of all charges, which were filed before District Judge Brenda Knepper, Goshorn faces fines and penalties of up to $23,000 and 69 years revocation of his hunting and trapping privileges.
LANCASTER COUNTY POACHERS CAUGHT IN DAUPHIN COUNTY
Pennsylvania Game Commission Wildlife Conservation Officers (WCOs) filed charges against Shane Shue and Jeffrey Trogdon, both of Lititz, Lancaster County, for killing three deer at night and attempting to kill a fourth on Swatara Road in Derry Township, Dauphin County, on Jan. 10 and 17.
On Jan. 12, Game Commission officers discovered a dead deer in a field along Swatara Road. A second deer was found the next day, a short distance away. Examination of the deer indicated they had been killed with a .257 caliber rifle during the previous weekend.
BEDFORD COUNTY DEER POACHERS PLEAD GUILTY
David Loy, 25, and Domenick Gillespie, 23, both of Buffalo Mills, recently pled guilty to charges stemming for a poaching case that spanned at least two months. Pennsylvania Game Commission Wildlife Conservation Officer (WCO) Dan Yahner, of Bedford County, headed up the investigation and filed the charges in District Judge Tonya Oman's court in Schellsburg.
Loy pled guilty to two counts of unlawful use of lights while hunting, three counts of unlawful taking or possession of deer, and one count of making false reports. Judge Oman assessed fines and penalties on Loy of $2,891.
Gillespie pled guilty to one count of unlawful use of lights while hunting, and one count of loaded firearms in vehicles. He was fined $871.
FINAL CHARGES FILED IN YORK COUNTY POACHING CASE
Pennsylvania Game Commission Wildlife Conservation Officer Chad Eyler, of York, announced that Shane Allen Krout, 19, of Holley Road, Glen Rock, pled guilty, on Jan. 28, to three charges of violating the Game and Wildlife Code, which resulted in fines of $2,000.
Krout pled guilty to one charge of illegal importation of an unlawfully-killed Maryland deer, for which he was fined $800.
Additionally, Krout pled guilty to one count of unlawful use of lights while hunting for and/or assisting in killing a deer at night, and one count of unlawful devices and methods for locating the deer that was shot at night by use of a motor vehicle on Oct. 1, in Codorus Township. Krout was fined $700 and $500, respectively, for these charges.
For more information on these cases, please visit the Pennsylvania Game Commission - State Wildlife Management Agency website:
http://www.pgc.state.pa.us/pgc/cwp/view.asp?a=11&Q=176081