Man gets 10 months in jail for hunting rabbits
Raymond Hillsman By Associated Press and KVAL.com staffALBANY, Ore. (AP) — A Brownsville man convicted of violating his lifetime hunting suspension has been sentenced to 10 months in the Linn County Jail. Sgt. Mari Chambers of the Oregon State Police says 58-year-old Raymond Hillsman was caught trespassing on private land while retrieving beagles he used to hunt rabbits. Hillsman has not been allowed to hunt since a 1999 racketeering conviction. In that case, he was convicted of killing bears illegally and selling their gall bladders. According to police, Chambers got a six-month sentence for violating the suspension, three months on a charge of criminal trespass with a firearm and another 30 days for being a felon in possession of a firearm. Hillsman's ten month sentence in Linn County Jail is on the following charges:
He will also be placed on 36 months supervised probation with restrictions not to possess any game meat or any part of game mammal or fur-bearing mammal; not to engage in any kind of hunting or be with anyone who is hunting; and not to train any dogs for hunting or live with anyone who owns dogs for hunting. |
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