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Three Indicted on Big Game Hunt Charges in Alaska National Park

The Associated Press 18 hrs ago


ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — A federal grand jury has indicted three men on charges connected to illegal hunting in an Alaska national park.

The indictment announced Tuesday names 44-year-old Jeffrey Harris, of Poulsbo, 72-year-old Dale Lackner, of Haines, Alaska, and 47-year-old Casey Richardson of Huson, Montana.

Online court documents do not list their attorneys.

Federal prosecutors say the hunts occurred at a lodge in Wrangell-St. Elias National Park and Preserve.

The indictment says Harris and Richardson, who don't hold guide licenses, guided out-of-state hunters on Dall sheep hunts.

Lackner, a registered guide in 2015, is charged with conspiring to conduct illegal hunts and creating false hunt records.

The indictment also alleges that Richardson and Harris used artificial sweetener harmful to canines on bait piles to try to kill wolves and coyotes.

http://www.kitsapsun.com/story...ng-crimes/618565001/



Poulsbo man charged in Alaska for hunting crimes

Andrew Binion, abinion@kitsapsun.com Published 3:55 p.m. PT Aug. 30, 2017


ANCHORAGE — A Poulsbo man charged earlier this month in U.S. District Court in Alaska is being accused of illegally leading a hunt for Dall sheep inside a national park and falsifying documents.

Jeffrey Harris, 44, also allegedly wrote to another man, who was also charged, that he planned to plant two dead rabbits, tainted with a substance called xylitol that is poisonous to wolves and coyotes, at a bear baiting station. Xylitol is a sweetener that is deadly to canines and birds, according to a statement from the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Alaska.

“Let them snatch them and have a sweet treat,” Harris allegedly wrote in a Facebook message, obtained by federal investigators according to court documents. Harris was charged for the poisoning as well.

Harris was employed as a horse wrangler and maintenance worker for Ptarmigan Lake Lodge, which provided guided hunting trips at Wrangell-St. Elias National Park and Preserve, the country’s largest national park. Harris, who was not authorized to guide hunts, is accused of illegally leading in 2014 one of the hunts that resulted in the shooting of a sheep. Harris is then accused of falsifying documents to hide his involvement. The person who shot the sheep paid $4,000.

Harris is also accused of illegally trafficking a harvested blonde grizzly bear, then knowingly filing falsified reports, misstating the date the bear was shot as it was out of season, according to court documents.

Two other men were charged in connection to the case, Dale Lackner, 72, from Haines, Alaska, and Casey Richardson, 47, from Huson, Montana.