Photo courtesy: Colorado Parks and Wildlife
JEFFERSON COUNTY, Colo. (KKTV) – Colorado Parks and Wildlife officials helped hunt down a man who was illegally in possession of a mountain lion.
Andrew Pashley pleaded guilty to the illegal sale of big game wildlife, a Class 6 felony, as well as illegal possession of a mountain lion on Nov. 8 in Jefferson County District Court.
As part of the adjudication of the criminal and civil cases in this investigation, Pashley was ordered to forfeit the truck that he used for his illegal outfitting business, cash that was paid to him for the illegal mountain lion hunt, as well as all the hunting equipment he owned for his hounds.
“We investigate crimes like this both to protect the wildlife of the state, but also to protect the interests of legal and ethical hunters and…
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Exposing the Big Game 
And remember this one? I don’t know if I had read what ultimately became of these scumbags. The family that poaches wildlife and commits fraud together stay together – in the slammer! Sigh. Sometimes I have to read and re-read the wins in order to keep my tenuous grip on sanity! 😉
https://www.westword.com/news/final-sentence-in-colorados-worst-poaching-case-8292002
Thanks for the link.
“At least one lion was trapped and fitted with a radio-tracking collar, allowing the guides to trap it when needed months later. They put the lion in a cage and held it for a week at Loncarich’s home in Mack, Colorado, waiting for the client to arrive from Missouri. The lion was then boxed and transported by snowmobile to a place where the client was sure to find it.”
The whole things sounds almost unbelievable! How did they get a radio-tracking collar? I wish they could nail the clients too, because they had to know the animal had been shot, maimed and/or weakened in some way ahead a time to accommodate their lazy asses. And the guy’s defense was that he was ‘depressed’ (prescription drug abuses).
There’s no telling what you will find when digging dirt on these people, it’s all connected.
They sound like wildlife pimps. Same exploitive mindset.