Dugan Traversie was sentenced June 4 in federal court to a year of probation and ordered to pay $9,000 restitution to the Timber Lake Elk Ranch where he poached this buck on or about Oct. 28, 2019 near Isabel, S.D., which is on the Cheyenne River Indian Reservation. The ranch had clients slated to pay $25,000 to hunt the buck, a prosecutor said Thursday at the sentencing. Traversie posted this photo of himself with the deer’s severed head in early November on social media. It got picked up by hunting-related social media across the country, including Hunting News.
A federal magistrate judge in Pierre on Thursday sentenced Dugan Traversie to a year of probation, a year without hunting, and to pay restitution of $9,000 to the Timber Lake Elk Ranch where he poached a whitetail buck with a freakishly huge set of antlers.
The incident on the…
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