UPDATED: Fri., June 17, 2022
- https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2022/jun/17/boise-area-men-get-hunting-firearm-bans-for-killin/
By Nicole BlanchardThe Idaho Statesman
Two Boise-area men were sentenced to probation and banned from hunting after pleading guilty to killing a protected bird of prey at a conservation site near Boise.
According to a U.S. Department of Justice news release, 20-year-old Colten R. Ferdinand, of Boise, and 23-year-old Wyatt G. Noe, of Eagle, pleaded guilty to the crime on March 24 of killing a golden eagle in the Morley Nelson Snake River Birds of Prey National Conservation Area.
The birds have been federally protected since 1940 alongside bald eagles after both species neared extinction. U.S. Magistrate Judge Candy W. Dale sentenced both men to two years of probation, as well as two-year hunting and firearm possession bans.
Ferdinand forfeited a rifle, ammunition…
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