Oregon poacher fined $16K in elk wastage case
HUNTING -- A St. Helens, Oregon, man has lost his hunting privileges for three years, must do community service and pay more than $16,000 in fines as part of a sentence for poaching elk last year.
Oregon State Police’s Fish and Wildlife Division says Darren Naillon has pleaded guilty to aiding in a game violation and waste of a game animal.
Naillon and a 15-year-old in October 2015 killed two bull elk in the Starkey Wildlife Management Unit in eastern Oregon, authorities say. Only one of them had a tag to take a branch antler bull.
Troopers found the bulls had not been field dressed and only had the prime cuts of meat removed. Troopers estimated half the meat on both animals had been wasted.
Naillon also has to forfeit two rifles, a backpack and the antlers.