by Rynski on Nov.18, 2009, under animal cruelty, animals, life, wildlife
Two Arizona hunters busted for illegal antics
Two guys from Willcox won’t be hunting ’round here no more after being busted by the Arizona Game and Fish Department, according to a news release from the agency.
Game and Fish's John Bacaorn and crew don't fool around/submitted photo
In addition to lifetime and lengthy state license revocations, the dudes were fined more than $12,000.
A six-month Arizona Game and Fish investigation, complete with search warrants, revealed the two were illegally taking wildlife in the Willcox area.
Jared A. Youngs, 22, got a $6,000 fine and had his state hunting and fishing privileges suspended for life.
His hunting buddy Josh L. Ferrigna, 24, was slapped with a $1,500 fine and a 15-year license suspension.
These civil fines, administered by Game and Fish last month, compounded the nearly $5,000 the men already owe from criminal charges late last year.
The duo received a hefty 22 citations from Game and Fish. These included knowingly taking wildlife: during a closed season, at night with artificial night, without a hunting license and with the aid of a vehicle. They were also cited for wasting game meat and trespassing on private property while killing off their prey.
“All of these animals were killed in farm fields around the Willcox area at night,” said John Bacaorn, wildlife manager for Game and Fish. “During interviews, these individuals were asked why they had engaged in this type of activity, and their responses were they just got caught up in the excitement and the adrenaline rush.”
Perhaps they are lucky no landowners got an excited, adrenaline rush when the two were trespassing on private property.
What do you think?
Have you ever engaged in un-sportsmanlike or illegal conduct like this pair? If so, please e-mail your name and address to Game and Fish.
Do you think their punishment is too lenient, too harsh?
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November 18th, 2009 on 11:13 am
They sound like the type of guys our beloved leftfield would refer to as rednecks.
November 18th, 2009 on 11:23 am
hahahhahahahaahhahahhahah!
November 18th, 2009 on 5:46 pm
Five will get you ten that they both have some items of camouflage clothing in their closets; two will get you ten that one of them has a relative named Cletus or Daryll; one will get you 20 that neither one has a Russian novel in their house or any book without pictures in it.
What odds will you give me that at least one of them has been to a Monster Truck Rally in the last two years?
November 18th, 2009 on 6:07 pm
add “naked” into the picture books and you’re on!
November 18th, 2009 on 6:12 pm
….maybe a wife/cousin named Murtle?
November 18th, 2009 on 6:17 pm
murtle!
November 18th, 2009 on 6:18 pm
LOL!
November 18th, 2009 on 6:18 pm
I do have a pair of camouflage pumps that are adorable.
November 18th, 2009 on 6:19 pm
Stylish while making my feet look remarkably small….
November 18th, 2009 on 6:57 pm
oh, shoes that make your feet look small are great! that’s why i’m always picking round-toed mary janes. no camouflague, yet, though. have to keep my eyes open for some with that pattern…
November 18th, 2009 on 7:26 pm
Ya know Lefty, coming from a guy who is an apologist for communists, I find your remarks rather strange. I’ll just bet yer favorite sons of Mao all wore similar quilted outfits while they were butchering an estimated fifty(50) MILLION of their Chinese countrymen and odds are they all had names that were the Chinese equivalents of a Cletus or a Daryll . Same goes for Stalin, Lenin, and Marx and their gang.
What these two young men in Willcox did was pretty sick, but it was nothing on the scale of what yer heros Stalin and Mao did. You could screen your superheros a whole lot better, IMO. Myself, I would choose to associate with a NASCAR type way before ever considering hanging out and having a beer with Che, Mao, or Joe Stalin.
November 18th, 2009 on 9:11 pm
“Myself, I would choose to associate with a NASCAR type way before ever considering hanging out and having a beer with Che, Mao, or Joe Stalin.”
I know you would, Ado. Don’t forget to brush “Old Yeller” before you go to bed tonight.
November 18th, 2009 on 1:33 pm
These clowns give the honorable taking of wild game a serious black eye.
The rush? These spotlighting poachers should be doing some serious time too.
November 18th, 2009 on 1:34 pm
Looks like AZ Game and Fish did a little poaching of their own. Good work; jokers like this ruin it for everyone.
November 18th, 2009 on 6:08 pm
game and fish definitely gets applause for busting bad apples like such. i also liked the agency looks after prairie dogs, too!
November 18th, 2009 on 2:05 pm
Well, they are young guys, so hopefully they’ll see the error of their ways.
November 18th, 2009 on 2:10 pm
Or move on to bigger and better thrills…these are some sick puppies.
Some of my dads friends used to like to do this crap. I never saw the point, and I enjoy hunting more than football…did I just say that?
November 18th, 2009 on 2:52 pm
I hope not! I personally could never kill an animal myself…if I was stranded somewhere I would probably starve, or die eating a poison plant.
November 18th, 2009 on 3:06 pm
Az, I make a quail, cocktail onions, carrots and red potatoes in white wine sauce cooked in a dutch oven over a campfire you would not believe!(or so I’m told)
I only take game I’m going to eat or give to others. I hear tell that some research has speculated on plants feeling pain, for cryin’ out loud. Pretty soon they’ll have to come up with inorganic foods, the way things are headed. No reconstituted dirt sandwiches, thank you.
November 18th, 2009 on 3:29 pm
Yes, my aunt is a biochemist who has helped develop synthetic seeds to grow plants, and even synthetic blood.
I’ve had quail, javelina, deer, etc. just didn’t do the killing myself. I would cry.
I’m sure your quail dish is fantastico! Is it as good as your chicken mole served by a smarmy guy?!?
November 18th, 2009 on 3:41 pm
Light years better! Plus, it is served by the chef radmax himself…can’t handle smarmy when I’m campin’ az.
November 18th, 2009 on 5:15 pm
Smarmy and camping don’t mix, I suppose. Nice to know you not only cook, but serve as well. Hope you have a cool “Kiss The Chef” apron.
November 18th, 2009 on 5:38 pm
Nah, it says, “the hell with housework, let’s go to Las Vegas”…
November 18th, 2009 on 6:09 pm
people who pee the bed, engage in arson, harm animals or illegally take wildlife in willcox often end up as serial killers.
November 18th, 2009 on 2:54 pm
Unfortunately, I think radmax’s take is more likely. Note that they were previously fined nearly $5,000 late last year.
November 18th, 2009 on 3:31 pm
Hi koreyk,
I know you are both probably right, especially considering there was past bad behavior. I was just trying to keep a positive attitude, but as Dr. Phil always says, ‘Past behavior predicts future behavior.”
November 18th, 2009 on 5:43 pm
I’d be very interested to hear Sawyer’s take on this…bet he is outraged! Where is that pusillanimous pooch today…?
November 18th, 2009 on 6:16 pm
sawyer is about to help clean the house (he’s in charge of vacuuming up dog hair) but i told him you were interested in his response to this horrendous situation. so…
sawyer says:
since there are so many challenging and legal methods in which people can engage to enjoy hunting, those who turn to unscrupulous, unsavory and illegal tactics are surely those who are drunken buffoons.
can i have a treat now?
November 18th, 2009 on 6:23 pm
Sawyer is wise beyond his years.
November 18th, 2009 on 6:32 pm
hahah! he said thanks!
November 18th, 2009 on 7:19 pm
Ha! Great answer, give him one for me Rynski!
November 18th, 2009 on 8:03 pm
just gave him a radmax charlee bear. thanks.
November 18th, 2009 on 6:19 pm
the suspensions should be lifetime. fines are way to light.
jail? why should we pay for their room and board. an introduction to the discipline end of a pick handle a few dozen times would drive the point home and cost nothing.
November 18th, 2009 on 6:32 pm
pick handle!
November 18th, 2009 on 6:40 pm
well, we could send them a really mean letter ……….
delivering more pain than what is given, usually stops the bad guy from wnating to give anymore.
as eastwood stated in the pale rider ……….. there is nothing like a good piece of hickory. and he is so right.
November 18th, 2009 on 6:56 pm
eastwood knows his stuff…even though that gran torino thing made little sense…
November 18th, 2009 on 7:17 pm
“gran torino thing made little sense” ????
military man full of hate for a race he fought
changes after he gets to know them as people
sacrifices what little life he has to save the upstart teen
he has tried to make some moral statements with this movie and unforgiven. i believe he could do it with a less obscenity but then that is just me.
November 18th, 2009 on 8:02 pm
i was expecting a little more action, is all. and yes, you’re right. there were a lot of F- words being thrown around.
November 18th, 2009 on 8:44 pm
C’mon, after a pretty damn good flick, you weren’t just a little disappointed by the ending?! I couldn’t believe it was over! I thought Clint was gonna go out in a blaze of glory! Very anti-climatic.
November 18th, 2009 on 8:56 pm
…or even anti-climactic for cryin’ out loud…
November 18th, 2009 on 6:31 pm
Ryn: I knew you would somehow work the alcohol drinker/non drinker article into this, way to slip that in. Of course the word “drunken” does not always relate to, or mean “drunk” in the drinking sense. So maybe it was an innocent coincedence.
Either way i do agree with Sawyers statement for sure. Sawyers treat is knowing his remarks are stimulating some fantastic thought process and great responses to the subject matter at hand.
November 18th, 2009 on 6:35 pm
hhaha – oldwest2, that was SAWYER who slipped in the drinker stuff. i can’t be responsible for his statements. hahah. i should write a disclaimer like you find on editorial pages: the statements and views herein expressed by a dog do not necessarily reflect those of the girl with red hair.
sawyer says thanks for agreeing.
November 18th, 2009 on 6:42 pm
NO NO NO, disclaimers i like free wheeling, typing by the seat of your pants reporting and discussions, disclaimers would take all the fun out of it. Well come to think of it you would have all kinds of lead way then, hmmm maybe haha.
November 18th, 2009 on 6:55 pm
i’ll ask sawyer what he thinks – but right now he’s still vacuuming!
free wheeling does make for some great convo, for sure.
November 18th, 2009 on 9:09 pm
“there is nothing like a good piece of hickory”, he says, rapping his knuckles on his forehead.
November 18th, 2009 on 10:16 pm
rapping knuckles ………. no, just heads.