"We're on it!"
Finally some action on this!
They killed Buffy! You bastards!
I'm mentally reliving that scene from "Dances with Wolves"..."We must find these people..."...
Good work.
Ping.
"We're on it!"
South Park has had bison herds for many years.
Another very rich 'city slicker' who thinks it is he who makes the rules. And with all his money, he probably thinks he can buy his way out of anything. I'm thinking he is laughing all the while down in Austin, daring the law to do anything against him.
The bison were doing what bison do. It was up to the 'city slicker' to keep them out.
32 head of Bison does not equate with hundreds of acres of carcasses. Its not a particularly good situation, but does it require deceptive reporting? I get a laugh out of the D.A.’s inventive charging. I realize that the meat appears to have been wasted and that Hawn has apparantly deprived the owner of the use and benefit of his beef, but to try to hold Hawn responsible on a lesser felony of cruelty when he did not participate in the “hunt” is a grand stand for emotion by the prosecution. What’s wrong with the class 3 felony for theft in an amount greater than $15,000.
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What a terrible waste of good meat.
Imagine how many hungry people those bison could have fed.
Good eating, too.
A landowner whose letter, according to officials, urged hunters to "get started" is wanted in the killings.
By Howard Pankratz
The Denver Post
Article Last Updated: 05/09/2008 01:55:23 AM MDT
Authorities charged Thursday that an Austin, Texas, businessman, frustrated because a neighbor's bison were wandering onto his land near Hartsel, first threatened and then organized a hunt that led to 32 bison deaths.
"You may hunt or remove them or you may remove them live and take them to the location of your choice," Hawn wrote.
The 32 bison found dead in March belonged to longtime South Park rancher Monte Downare. Hawn owns a ranch near, but not adjacent to, the Downare ranch, according to The warrant said Hawn is wanted on one count of felony theft, one count of felony criminal mischief and 32 counts of aggravated cruelty to animals, a Class 6 felony.
Monte Gore, undersheriff for Park County, said charges might be filed against other individuals.
"We are leaving those options open," he said.
Gore said arrangements are being made for Hawn to turn himself in.
According to the warrant affidavit, three bison were killed on Hawn's ranch; eight on Bureau of Land Management property; four on U.S. Forest Service property; 14 on the property belonging to Catherine L. Primm; and three on the property of Robert Lemm.
Officials claim that Hawn himself was involved in killing some of the animals.
Antonino Salcedo of the Aztlan Native Community, who received the Feb. 25 letter, said that Hawn told him that he had killed two bison prior to Salcedo's arrival at the property.
Salcedo said that when he and his group arrived, they saw nine "wasted carcasses," which no one took responsibility for shooting.
Several witnesses said they saw Hawn on his property with a 30.06 rifle during the last week of February and first week of March.
Officers said that during a search of Hawn's house in South Park, they recovered a 30.06 rifle, seized empty 30.06 ammunition boxes, full boxes of 30.06 ammunition and a box with four cartridges missing.
The bison were shot after Hawn and his Denver attorney, Stephen E. Csajaghy, complained about Downare's bison damaging Hawn's property.
In a letter dated Jan. 28, Csajaghy told Downare that over the previous six weeks, there had been more than 1,000 head of Downare's bison on Hawn's property. Csajaghy said he had photographic proof that "your buffalo" had broken through gates and trespassed on more than 20 occasions over the previous two months.
And in the letter, Csajaghy threatened to kill the bison
. ". . . We are considering alternate remedies, such as allowing a hunt of any buffalo that come onto Mr. Hawn's property," Csajaghy wrote. "However, we would certainly prefer to resolve this problem amicably without having to resort to such action."