A Justice of the Peace has fined a Thunder Bay hunter $2,000 and suspended his hunting privileges for one year.
Court was told that a landowner near Kakabeka Falls complained last November that someone had shot a deer on his property.
A lengthy investigation by the Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry revealed that a party had been driving a vehicle through Conmee Township in the early morning hours of November 29, 2016.
A passenger in the vehicle spotted a deer standing on a vacant farm property near a house and garage.
He fired two shots across Hunt Road with a high-powered rifle, wounding the deer, which escaped and was never recovered.
The man pleaded guilty to trespassing for the purpose of hunting.
