Posted on 08/02/2011 5:56:20 PM PDT by Daffynition
SAN DIEGO (AP) — A San Diego County ranch supervisor has pleaded guilty to illegally killing a mountain lion.
The North County Times (http://bit.ly/qJYKYA) reports that Mario Arteaga pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor crime in June and agreed to pay a $1,000 fine. He could have faced up to a year in jail if convicted in a trial.
Authorities claimed that Arteaga illegally shot the animal in 2009 at a Fallbrook avocado ranch where he works. Arteaga claimed he shot the lion in self-defense but authorities said he shot the animal while it was treed by dogs.
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**Flaherty said Arteaga also agreed to destroy the weapon he used.**
http://www.nctimes.com/news/local/fallbrook/article_aa1bc548-2ed4-580c-9dd3-ae93d53c61ce.html
Game warden **Chang said it was unlikely that a treed lion would descend with dogs prowling beneath it, and that if it did, the dogs would have given instant chase, driving the lion away from Arteaga.
"He said the mountain lion ran toward him, but I don't believe the story," Chang said. "A treed lion is not going anywhere, because it's safe. Usually, lion behavior is to stay up the tree until the dogs are gone. So I think that's when he went back and got the gun (a semi-automatic Ruger 10/22 rifle with a large scope) and shot it."**
The ranch is for sale: $11,950,000 Land near Bonsall, California - San Diego County
He will get more time than any of the 5 Fullerton cops who killed that Homeless guy July 5th.
What in the screaming blue hell is a “ranch supervisor”????
Anyone competent enough to run a ranch will have been baptized in Shoot, Shovel, and SHUT UP!!!
He otta get 30 years just for runnin’ his neck.
And who shoots a mountain lion with a .22?
“And who shoots a mountain lion with a .22?”
It did have a LARGE scope. LOL!
‘**Flaherty said Arteaga also agreed to destroy the weapon he used.**”
Evil mojo in that gun! That particular gun has bad juju and must be punished!
I’d have kept the gun but preformed a public exorcism to show that the evil had been driven out.
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