An Alaska hunter has been fined $8,500 and is banned from hunting in Canada for five years after falsely declaring a sheep he shot in the Yukon and then brought back across the border as an Alaska harvest. The crime was uncovered after Canadian investigators found a tree and other landmarks seen in hunting photos to confirm the location of the kill.
Donald Lee, of Fairbanks, Alaska, pleaded guilty to one count of unlawful export of the sheep under a federal law protecting wildlife and plants in Yukon territorial court in January.
He was sentenced by Judge Karen Ruddy Wednesday.
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