Hunting Fines Issued

A Nestor Falls lodge owner and guide is out of pocket $7-thousand after being convicted on charges related to illegal deer hunting.

Dean Roy, an owner and operator of Meline’s Lodge and Guide Service, pleaded guilty earlier this month to two counts of unlawfully hunting deer during closed season and one count of making a false statement to a Ministry of Natural Resources conservation officer.

The charges stem from a November 2008 incident in which the MNR says Roy provided guiding services to three non-resident hunters in an area that was closed for the season and later stored a deer that was shot by one of the hunters.

A Minnesota man has been fined for illegally hunting deer in the Kenora area.

The man was fined $25-hundred for careless hunting and $500 for transporting illegally killed wildlife in connection with an October 2006 incident.

The Ministry of Natural Resources says the man was charged after conservation officers found the man had shot a deer standing on a roadway in the vicinity of homes and cottages and taking the kill back to Minnesota.