Hunter Fined

A Timmins, Ontario man has been banned from hunting for one year after being found guilty of shooting a deer on private property.

Sylvain Gravel was charged last year.

Court was told he admitting to shooting the deer to a Ministry of Natural Resources conservation officer who was investigating a complaint of a hunter trespassing on private land near Split Rock Road in Sifton township, northeast of Fort Frances.

Gravel was also fined three-thousand dollars.