December 22, 2014
From Alaska-Native-News.com
When Alaska Wildlife Troopers opened an investigation of an illegal hunting and trapping tip, they would find that 50-year-old Michael James had used illegal bait at one trapping location. They also found the remains of a Brown Bear cub at another location. The bear had died in an unattended snare.
James was charged with using game as bait, taking a brown bear using unlawful methods, failure to salvage the bear, as well as failure to seal the bear hide and skull within thirty days of the kill.