Poaching case snares local feds

Grand Junction Sentinel ^ | 07.12.2016 | Charles Ashby

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Four Western Slope men, including two local U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service employees, have been sentenced in the poaching of a trophy bull elk on private land on the Roan Plateau, Colorado Parks and Wildlife announced Tuesday.

State officials said Thad Bingham, 44, of Fruita, killed the elk, while Brian Scheer, 45, of Fruita, Josh Fitzsimmons, 45, of Rifle, and Barrett Rowles, 48, whose hometown wasn’t given, participated in the illegal hunt in October 2014, which the state agency took two years to investigate.

Bingham and Scheer work at the service’s Horsethief Canyon Native Fish Facility Ponds near Fruita, where some evidence in the case was found. A message left with the Fish and Wildlife Service office in Denver inquiring whether Bingham and Scheer are still employees with the agency wasn’t returned Tuesday.

[dware]

“Rather than setting a good example as employees of a federal wildlife management agency, these two individuals and their accomplices instead chose to violate the law in an egregious manner, and that is a real shame,” he said in a release.

So, par for the course when it comes to gubmint work.

[dware]

Colorado Ping!

[Georgia Girl 2]

At this point what difference does it make? Just taking their cues from the top.

[ColdOne]

So, par for the course when it comes to gubmint work. ........especially this gov.

[glorgau]

2 years to investigate?

[roadcat]

Hillary’s sons (borrowing a phrase used with Obama).

[MeganC]

Wait a second...don’t these guys have badges? Doesn’t that make this okay?

I mean can’t they just say that the elk was resisting arrest and that it lunged for their rifles causing these good officers to fear for their lives and have to use lethal force to protect themselves?

And since they had to use lethal force to subdue the suspect elk it only made sense to gut it and take the meat home, right?

[CrazyIvan]

“the poaching of a trophy bull elk........”

Was he named Cicil?

[bgill]

the state agency took two years to investigate

It shouldn't have taken years to investigate but that seems to be how the gov works.

[rockrr]

Poaching on His Heinous’s royal preserves - this will not go well for the serfs.

[Principled]

Take their bank accounts, take their homes, jail them for decades.

[Theoria]

The poaching was on private property. Not on the King's land.

However, at this point all the land is owned by the King.

[zek157]

POS left half the meat to rot.

[MrBambaLaMamba]

The Feds should have no authority to restrict hunting on privately owned land.

[SgtHooper]

Yup! Nothing like poaching a trophy animal to make an inadequate male feel like a man. Take everything they have.

[Paladin2]

I’m sure they had no intent to get caught....

[Paladin2]

BLM matters.....

[Paladin2]

Still likely the King’s elk.

[Flick Lives]

have been sentenced in the poaching of a trophy bull elk...

I've poached many an egg, but never an elk.

[Theoria]

They certainly think so.