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Speaker 1: From Mediators World News headquarters in Bozeman, Montana. This is

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Speaker 2: Oregon has been a buzz this month with wolverine sightings,

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Speaker 2: and the latest one was caught on camera and broad daylight.

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Speaker 2: The black mustelid was seen lumbering across Highway twenty east

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Speaker 2: of Santium Pass, and the Oregon Department of Fishing Wildlife

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Speaker 2: posted the footage on their Facebook page Stafford. The agency

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Speaker 2: confirmed the sighting by examining the tracks on the day

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Speaker 2: the video was taken. This is exciting news because it

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Speaker 2: means that there could be a second wolverine outside the

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Speaker 2: Walawa Mountains. The first sighting occurred along the Columbia River

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Speaker 2: on McGuire Island, just north of Portland. This was the

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Speaker 2: first time in thirty years of wolverine had been seen

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Speaker 2: outside the Walawas, which are located about two hundred miles

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Speaker 2: west of the city. Over the next few weeks, there

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Speaker 2: or at least three other wolverine sidings in the Portland area,

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Speaker 2: one in Dabascus about twelve miles south of McGuire Island,

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Speaker 2: another about ten miles farther south in Oregon City, and

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Speaker 2: the next about fifteen miles south of that in Colton. Now,

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Speaker 2: before you start hoping that wolverines are taking over Portland,

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Speaker 2: you should know a thing or two about how wolverines operate.

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Speaker 2: Like mountain lions and bears, a young wolverine will disperse

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Speaker 2: into new territory to start its own home range. Based

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Speaker 2: on the timing and locations of the sidings in March,

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Speaker 2: the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife says that this

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Speaker 2: could be the same animal. The most recent sighting near

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Speaker 2: the Santeem Pass, however, was a full sixty miles south

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Speaker 2: of its last known location. Wolverines have been known to

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Speaker 2: disperse as far as two hundred and thirty five miles,

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Speaker 2: so it's not out of the question that a single

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Speaker 2: wolverine is trucking south in search of a mate. Still,

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Speaker 2: it seems unlikely that the same animal could be seen

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Speaker 2: so many times in only four or five weeks. Wolverines

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Speaker 2: were extirpated from the Central Cascades in the mid twentieth century.

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Speaker 2: The last documented wolverine in the area was killed in

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Speaker 2: nineteen sixty nine trapper near Broken Top Mountain. If these

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Speaker 2: wolverines somehow survive and reproduce, Portlandians can hope to see

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Speaker 2: even more furry, ferocious critters on the outskirts of the city.

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Speaker 2: This week, We've got crime, the DOJ, pigs, legislation, and

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Speaker 2: so much more. But first I'm gonna tell you about

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Speaker 2: my week. My week, or the rest of it rather,

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Speaker 2: was spent with an amazing pair of fishermen, the kil Kenneys,

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Speaker 2: who have dedicated years in the pursuit of catching giant

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Speaker 2: trevali on the Big Island that's you know, Hawaii. The

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Speaker 2: GT or alua is an incredibly powerful fish. Once fished

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Speaker 2: commercially throughout its range for meat, and it still is

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Speaker 2: in some areas. The alua is now a highly sought

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Speaker 2: after recreational trophy fish, meaning a lot are caught and

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Speaker 2: then let go again. I'm interchangings GT giant tivale, alua,

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Speaker 2: They're all the same fish. Okay, since I was on Hawaii,

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Speaker 2: We're gonna stick with alua. How's that Alua are versatile predators.

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Speaker 2: They eat crustaceans, cephal pods, any fish that can fit

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Speaker 2: in its large mouth. The fish that I caught. There

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Speaker 2: was room for at least two of my fists in

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Speaker 2: that dude's face, and that was roughly a fifty pounder.

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Speaker 2: They'll even eat birds and flying fish above the surface.

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Speaker 2: There's an absolutely fantastic YouTube video of Alua chasing and

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Speaker 2: eating birds. You gotta check it out. Type in fish

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Speaker 2: v birds blue Planet two into the old YouTube Google machine. Anyway,

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Speaker 2: Lua are such aggressive consumers of reefish that they are

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Speaker 2: prone to the accumulation of sequa. If you're unfamiliar here,

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Speaker 2: here's what the CDC has to say about it. Siguatara,

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Speaker 2: which is cig u a t e r a, is

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Speaker 2: an illness caused by eating fish that contain toxins produced

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Speaker 2: by a marine microalgae called Gambier Discus toxicus. People who

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Speaker 2: have sequatara may experience nausea, vomiting, a neurologic symptoms such

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Speaker 2: as tinkling fingers or toes. They also may find that

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Speaker 2: cold things feel hot and hot things feel cold. Siguatara

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Speaker 2: has no cure. Symptoms usually go away in days or weeks,

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Speaker 2: but can last for years. People who have sequatara can

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Speaker 2: be treated for their symptoms. Fish that are prone to

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Speaker 2: sequatara accumulation or barracuda black group or blackfin snapper, kubera snapper,

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Speaker 2: and yellowfin grouper have all been known to carry Segua toxins.

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Speaker 2: Now I may have already explained this again, but we

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Speaker 2: did take my gt or a lua home flay that

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Speaker 2: to be pretty tough. I hear that smoking and turning

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Speaker 2: to be delicious, and I am not worried about getting

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Speaker 2: the effects of sequatara. Now, I'm sure this dude, who

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Speaker 2: I know for a fact was eating those little reef

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Speaker 2: fish is probably carrying some level of Segua toxins, which

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Speaker 2: means I will then be carrying some level of sigua toxin. However,

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Speaker 2: as I understand it, this is a cumulative effect through

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Speaker 2: the accumulation over time of Sigwa toxins. Different levels affect

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Speaker 2: different people. So am I rolling the dice a little

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Speaker 2: bit sure? But again, I'm not concerned. Hope that clears

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Speaker 2: some things up for some folks. Anyway. Grew up as

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Speaker 2: a trout fisherman. I have no issue catching release and fish.

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Speaker 2: Chances are if I ever catch big old GT, I'll

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Speaker 2: let it go on the Roden reel setup. If I'm

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Speaker 2: opportunity at a GT of reasonable size, let's say, because

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Speaker 2: my skill level as a diver does not really make

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Speaker 2: me confident to go thunk a giant GT, get it

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Speaker 2: there for way too long. One of those things. I

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Speaker 2: will probably take another GT in my future if it's

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Speaker 2: reasonable size with the spear. So there you go. Super

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Speaker 2: cool fish. In most fisheries, they're doing great, and that's

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Speaker 2: kind of my week. I also went to the TRCP

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Speaker 2: Capitol Conservation Awards dinner, where they raised over a million

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Speaker 2: dollars a million dollars in one night for conservation. TRCP

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Speaker 2: does an amazing job lobbying up on the hill for

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Speaker 2: all of the things the hunting and angling community cares about,

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Speaker 2: access waters, wildlife. Amazing org room was full of super

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Speaker 2: fun people super interesting folks. Pleasure to meet everybody. Also

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Speaker 2: got to go check out the Portrait Museum and the

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Speaker 2: West wing of the White House, which was, you know,

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Speaker 2: a fun experience for Montana kid wandering around. Thank you DC.

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Speaker 2: All right, Moving on to the crime desk and Alabama

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Speaker 2: man has been charged with two misdemeanors after he brandished

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Speaker 2: a shotgun at anglers who were fishing from a boat

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Speaker 2: in front of his dock. Sixty six year old Ronald

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Speaker 2: Morgan was charged with interfering with hunting or fishing, along

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Speaker 2: with the second charge of menacing. The confrontation occurred back

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Speaker 2: in March during the fissures of men bass fishing urnurnament

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Speaker 2: on Miller's ferry. One of the anglers, Chris Pope, took

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Speaker 2: a video of the confrontation, during which Morgan holds a

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Speaker 2: shotgun and tells Pope he needs to quote go somewhere else.

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Speaker 2: Pope responds correctly that the lake is public property, and

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Speaker 2: things devolved from there. Insults were thrown and the Ten

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Speaker 2: Commandments were invoked. Here's a little bit of what that

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Speaker 1: You're a damn fool.

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Speaker 2: What Lord are you talking about?

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Speaker 1: If you do anything Lord, They wouldn't try to be

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Speaker 1: coveting somebody else's property.

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Speaker 2: That's number ten. By the way, you're a nip u

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Speaker 2: of a human being. Don't trust bad about property. Again.

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Speaker 2: If Morgan gets the maximum sentence for both charges, he's

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Speaker 2: which kind of sounds tough for a sixty plus year

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Speaker 2: old speaking of fishermen and firearms, and angler in Chicago

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Speaker 2: Chicago fishing story I can imagine. Local media reports that

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Speaker 2: Louis Frankie the Third was fishing with his brothers on

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Speaker 2: the North Branch of the Chicago River earlier this morning.

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Speaker 2: They were heading back to their car around ten thirty

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Speaker 2: pm when they were confronted by several men who asked

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Speaker 2: which gang they were in. Frankie's mother, Umliss Torres, said

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Speaker 2: her son claimed not to belong to any gang, which

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Speaker 2: is when the men opened fire on the car in

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Speaker 2: which the boys were sitting. The brothers ran away to

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Speaker 2: The twenty three year old angler miraculously survived multiple shots

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Speaker 2: eyesight in his left eye. His mother reports that Frankie

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Speaker 2: was a dedicated angler who would travel across the city

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Speaker 2: to different ponds and lakes to try to catch the

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Speaker 2: biggest fish. As of this recording and from what I

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Speaker 2: but they did say that Frankie has no criminal record.

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Speaker 2: A man in Ontario has been banned from hunting for

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Speaker 2: life after conservation officers discovered ninety one grouse in his home,

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Speaker 2: which is seventy six over the legal possession limit. Alan

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Speaker 2: Pasco of Cobalt, Ontario, pled guilty to unflawfully possessing an

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Speaker 2: overlimit of grouse and obstructing conservation officers. According to the

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Speaker 2: province's Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry, Pasco kept officers

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Speaker 2: Bral for sending that story. In jumping over to Minnesota,

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Speaker 2: twenty one year old Casey Meadows has been issued fines

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Speaker 2: totally eighteen hundred dollars after conservation officers say he hit

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Speaker 2: three deer with his truck on purpose. All three deer

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Speaker 2: department is seeking additional charges for animal cruelty and reckless driving.

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Speaker 2: multiple charges to a Pakistani outfitter and a California hunter

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Speaker 2: for attempting to smuggle an endangered sheep trophy into the US.

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Speaker 2: According to the DOJ, forty nine year old Jason Keith

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Speaker 2: Bruce of Galt, California, secured the services of a hunting

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Speaker 2: guide in Pakistan named Peer Danish Ali to hunt a

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Speaker 2: ladakh uriel. That's ladakh uriels are a type of sheep

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Speaker 2: native to Central Asia. They're listed as vulnerable by the

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Speaker 2: International Union for Conservation of Nature IUCN, and they're also

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Speaker 2: Endangered foreign Animals. According to court documents, Bruce paid Peer

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Speaker 2: fifty thousand dollars to kill a ural in Pakistan, and

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Speaker 2: the two bribed officials to export the animal out of

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Speaker 2: the country. Bruce carried them mount along with seven other

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Speaker 2: trophies from his hunting trip in his baggage. When he

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Speaker 2: Fish and Wildlife Service agents about the mount. He also

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Speaker 2: the officials in Pakistan. The two men have been charged

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Speaker 2: fifty thousand dollars fine. Bruce has also been charged with

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Speaker 2: smuggling and violating the Endangered Species Act, and he's looking

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Speaker 2: at an additional twenty one years in prison and a

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Speaker 2: three hundred thousand dollars fine. Speaking of jail time, an

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Speaker 2: Oregon man will spend ten days in jail forfeit his

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Speaker 2: rifle and pay four hundred and forty dollars in fines

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Speaker 2: Forty two year old Cody Murrel told investigators that he

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Speaker 2: mistake that you know, not your first mistake. He planned

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