October 7, 2016
From IdahoStateJournal.com
Tim Clemens, an Oregon resident, pleaded guilty to one count of poisoning animals and one count of unlawful take of big game on Tuesday in Valley County.
Conservation officers with the Idaho Department of Fish and Game received a report from a citizen that two dogs had been poisoned in the Middle Fork Salmon River area during the 2015 fall hunting season.
Interviews with the dogs’ owners and others tied the incident to a field-dressed deer carcass. Sample results from the poisoned dog matched the deer carcass, and Clemens admitted to Fish and Game officers that he put a small amount of poison on the carcass of the deer he had killed after the meat was removed.
Fourth District Magistrate Lamont Berecz ordered Clemens to serve 10 days of jail time, complete 200 hours of community service in lieu of an additional
20 days of jail time, and serve four years’ probation, during which time he cannot hunt.
The court also ordered Clemens to pay $675 in fines, court costs and community service insurance, $400 in civil damages for the big game animal killed and $10,000 in restitution to Idaho Fish and Game for investigative costs.