American hunter fined for illegal kill

A U.S. man has been fined $2,500 for illegally shooting a black bear in the Fort Frances area.
 
Officials with Ontario’s Ministry of Natural Resources say the Colorado man was fined for unlawfully hunting a black bear, possessing a void licence and exporting the bear from Ontario without a permit.
 
A court heard that in August of 2009 Levi Larsen, of Denver, Colo., tried to purchase a non-resident bear hunting licence from a licence issuer near Fort Frances. The U.S. man was referred to the area’s MNR office.
 
MNR staff denied the man a licence because he didn’t have the proper hunting accreditation from his home state.
 
An investigation by an MNR conservation officer revealed that Larsen purchases a non-resident licence from another location despite being told by the MNR that he could not buy one.
 
He later shot a black bear and exported it to the U.S.
 
Conservation officers in Colorado seized the bear.