AR-News: (US) Busting the Poacher King

[Animalara2003 at aol.com]

by Frank Miniter 
How authorities nabbed a master game thief. 
One would suppose that George Waters, 53, a former resident of West Branch, 
Iowa, who at press time was a resident of the Scott County Jail, didn?t set out 
in life to become the leader of the biggest poacher ring in Iowa?s history. 
Surely his high school guidance counselor didn?t praise the delights of a life 
spent slipping over security fences onto U.S. Army bases to kill huge 
whitetails. 
No, it seems that something as puerile as male one-upmanship might have 
prodded Waters to kill so much so often so illegally. He and his friend and now 
prison-mate, Kevin Lee Chelf, poached at least 42 huge whitetails, 11 bull elk 
and 6 mule deer?animals that are collectively worth $338,000, according to 
Jeffrey B. Lang, the special assistant U.S. attorney who prosecuted the case. 
Their Methodology







full story:

http://www.outdoorlife.com/outdoor/newsandfacts/snapshots/article/0,13285,6069
02,00.html 
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