KAPUSKASING, Ont. — Pointing a firearm and interfering with a hunt have cost a Kapuskasing woman the right to hunt for the next decade.
The Hearst Enforcement Unit of the Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry and the OPP both conducted an investigation after a complaint was submitted about an incident that occurred in October 2018.
According to MNRF, during the open hunting season for moose, two hunters in a side-by-side ATV were scouting for moose when they encountered a third hunter who was walking along an old logging road.
The duo reported that this person blocked their access to the area they were headed and that, during the altercation, she pointed her firearm at them and ordered them to leave.
Conservation officers charged her with using a firearm carelessly to hunt, and with interfering with lawful hunting.
In Kapuskasing court, she was banned from hunting for 10 years.
The criminal matter of pointing a firearm was handled in a separate court case.
Details of how that case was disposed of were not immediately available.
