Charges detail extensive poaching ring in Washington, Oregon
Source: Associated Press
Gene Johnson, Associated Press
Updated 8:56 pm, Friday, September 8, 2017
SEATTLE (AP) — An extensive poaching ring is responsible for slaughtering more than 100 black bears, cougars, bobcats, deer and elk in southwestern Washington state and northwestern Oregon, with many of the animals hunted with dogs and then left to rot, authorities said Friday.
"There was an absolute wanton disregard for our conservations laws," Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife Capt. Jeff Wickersham said.
Seven people — six adults, some of whom have previously been targeted in poaching investigations, and one juvenile — have been charged so far, but investigators plan to recommend charges against more people, he said. Some face upward of 60 counts related to illegal hunting and wasting animals.
The investigation was reported this week by The Chronicle newspaper of Centralia, which said it had obtained hundreds of pages of case reports from the department through a public records request.
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Anyone who gets a thrill killing wild animals just for the "sport" of it is sick, SICK, SICK! 
the most disgusting type thereof.
Y'know, though, the dump maladministration's action to allow wanton shooting of hibernating bears is just as egregious. The hideous people who will shoot those bears are no better than these cretins.
Suspects involved in a massive poaching ring in southwestern Washington and north central Oregon are officially charged.
Two of them are a father and son pair well-known in hunting circles.
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>Multiple videos seized
showed the suspects encouraging their dogs to tear bears apart after shooting them from tree tops.
. . .
Joe Dills was investigated in 2007 and charged in 2008 for his participation in the prolific poaching group, the self-avowed "Kill 'Em All Boyz." According to his case file, Dills hunted beside Micky Gordon, a man who bragged about illegally killing bears among other wildlife and even lethally punished one his hound dogs by wrapping an electrical collar to his testicles, shocking him so severely the dog later died of his injuries.
Eddy Dills, Joe Dills' dad, hunted on nearly two-dozen state issued permits in 2011 to kill bears on timber farms, as part of the WDFW Bear Timber Depredation Management (BTDM) program. It's a program that depends on hunter ethics, entrusted behind locked gates on private land to follow the rules.
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However, in >a year-long investigation
, KING 5 learned BTDM hunters who are caught breaking the rules are rarely held accountable by the state due to fractured and inconsistent policy driven by pressure from big timber. Hunters involved with the program told KING 5 there is often pressure to kill whatever bears are in the area rather than targeting problem animals.
More:
http://bestsellermagazine.com/news/Poaching-suspects-charged-after-violent-videos-seized/
"Kill 'Em All Boyz."
Some images of some of the "Boyz" and their handiwork:
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