Hunting Ban Issued

A Red Lake man has been fined $3,500 and prohibited from hunting in Ontario for two years for illegally hunting deer in the Rainy River District.

The man was charged last November after MNR conservation officers spotting two men walking out of the bush in the Nelles-Patullo Road area, north of Stratton, and get into a truck.

The MNR later found a deer shot in a nearby farmer's field that was dragged to a fence near the road.

The man initially denied shooting the deer, but C.O.'s were able to match the bullet that killed the animal to his riffle.