Posted on 08/16/2006 7:48:57 AM PDT by MineralMan
Country Singer Charged With Killing A Tame Bear (WCCO) Minneapolis Country singer Troy Lee Gentry was indicted Tuesday in federal court on a charge of illegally killing and tagging a tamed black bear.
Gentry, of Franklin, Tenn., and Lee Marvin Greenly, a 46-year-old wildlife photographer from Sandstone, Minn., appeared before U.S. Magistrate Judge Raymond Erickson in Duluth, Minn. Tuesday morning. Their case being prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney Michael A. Dees.
According to the indictment, Greenly sold Gentry a tame, trophy-caliber black bear named "Cubby" for approximately $4,650 in October of 2004. Greenly housed several animals for use in his photography business.
After the transaction, the indictment reports that Greenly and Gentry tagged the bear with a Minnesota hunting license. Gentry then allegedly killed the captive bear with a bow and arrow while the animal was still enclosed in a pen on Greenly's property.
The indictment further alleges that Greenly and Gentry registered the bear with the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources as though it had been hunted in the wild before shipping the animal's hide to a taxidermist in Kentucky for mounting.
According to the Lacey Act, it is illegal to falsely tag a tame bear for the purpose of hunting.
The bear's death was videotaped and allegedly edited after the fact to make it appear that Cubby had been killed in a "fair chase" situation.
Greenly is also facing two further charges of violations against the Lacey Act, including guiding hunters to the Sandstone National Wildlife Refuge, where black bear hunting is illegal, and unlawfully setting up bear-baiting stations in the area.
Both Gentry and Greenly have been released on bond pending their next court appearance. If convicted on the charges, they could both face a maximum potential penalty of five years in federal prison and a $20,000 fine.
Nope. "Scumbag" is too kind.
If it went down as reported, I suggest Gentry receive a similar fate.
WTF? This dude needs punched in the face repeatedly.
A gutless scumbag at that. Bow hunting an animal enclosed within a pen takes real courage.
Thats a D*mn shame..I've always like their Music..but someone so dumb will be hard to listen to now..
He's that stuff we used to clean out of the floor drains in the produce department.
"A gutless scumbag at that. Bow hunting an animal enclosed within a pen takes real courage. "
Yeah, he's a real brave guy. Once this gets out, his audience is gonna get a lot smaller.
Horrible!
PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE give them the 5 years with Bubba and some dyke.
I hate "canned hunts". Anything less than a 1000 acre "pen" aint hunting...it's slaughter.
They should let Ted Nugent "Hunt" this guy in the woods...........
Maybe T-Roy should be in the cage and let the Bear have target practice.
"I had a few tamed cows we would have butchered. They'd but this retractable gun into their frontal lobes... Chop 'em up and send them back in little white wax paper where we keep them in a freezer."
No.... they aren't kind to them at the butcher shop.
I don't like what he did, but the possibility of 5 years in prison?
I LOVE Montgomery Gentry, but if this is true, I will never buy another CD. Oh my God!?!
That was not hunting, that was just killing someone's pet.
I'm an archery hunter. This guy needs to do time in a cage.
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