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Convicted Poacher Receives Worldwide Hunting Ban

Convicted Poacher Receives Worldwide Hunting Ban
Convicted Poacher Receives Worldwide Hunting Ban
FRANKFORT, Ky. – A North Carolina man agreed to pay the Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources more than $5,300 in restitution and fees after pleading guilty to federal charges of illegally killing and transporting wildlife from Kentucky.

U.S. Magistrate Judge E. Robert Goebel also banned 44-year-old Rodney L. Poteat of Salisbury, N.C., from hunting anywhere in the world for two years as a condition of unsupervised probation, according to David J. Hale, United States Attorney for the Western District of Kentucky. Poteat is a former resident of Hart County, Kentucky.

Poteat was charged in a two-count information on...

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