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| Poaching Leads to Jail in WA |
| By missoulian.com |
| Published: 04/30/2010 |
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HAMILTON - A second Washington state man will spend time in jail and live out his life as a felon for his role in a 2003 poaching case in the Bitterroot Valley. Brent Mercado, 24, was sentenced to 30 days in jail and a three-year suspended sentence to the Montana Department of Corrections on Thursday in Ravalli County District Judge James Haynes' court. Mercado and Alan T. Sweet, 46, pleaded guilty earlier this year to felony and misdemeanor poaching charges that occurred during a drive through Montana in 2003 that the men later called their "big hunting trip." The men were charged in 2007 after Sweet's ex-wife contacted Washington authorities to report the men had hunted illegally in Montana. She offered authorities photographs of Sweet holding a young bighorn sheep's head and other evidence. The bighorn sheep was shot south of Darby just off the highway using a spotlight. Court records said the men also shot a mule deer in Ravalli County and an antelope in Beaverhead County while on their trip. Neither one had a Montana hunting license. Read More. |
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