March 11, 2016
From DailyJournal.net
BEND, Oregon — Two brothers convicted of killing livestock guardian dogs while hunting in the Ochocos have been ordered to pay the dogs’ owner nearly $250,000.
A Crook County jury on Tuesday ordered Paul and Craig Johnson to pay the dogs’ owner after a civil damages trial, The Bulletin of Bend reported.
The brothers were sentenced to probation and community service in October 2013. The brothers shot and killed three Great Pyrenees sheepdogs. They told a Crook County sheriff’s deputy in 2012 that they believed they were wild dogs.
The brothers have been ordered to pay owner Gordon Clark $7,500 for the replacement value of the dogs, $100,000 in emotional harm and $139,500 in punitive damages.