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MN: DNR tags ‘chronic poacher’ for illegal bear hunting

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May 7, 2015

From MPRNews.org

Brandon R. Greeley, 28, a resident of Blue Earth, Minn., and licensed bear guide in Tofte, Minn., is “well known to DNR conservation officers in northern and southern Minnesota as a chronic poacher with previous fishing, trapping and hunting violations,” the state Department of Natural Resources said in a statement.

Greeley’s illegal activities with clients included reports of not having the proper zone license to hunt bear in a given area, illegally transferring a bear tag, failure to register a bear, and lending a bear license.”

Greeley, who was also accused of shooting two bears in 2012 without a license and using a client’s bear tag, has been convicted of several gross misdemeanor and misdemeanor charges, fined nearly $4,000, and had his hunting privileges revoked for three years, the department said.