ABERDEEN, Miss. (AP) - A Wisconsin man has pleaded guilty to taking illegally harvested wildlife pelts out of Mississippi.
Peter Jesunas, 32, of Shiocton, Wisconsin, pleaded guilty Monday before U.S. Magistrate David Sanders. He was fined $10,000 and ordered not to hunt anywhere worldwide for three years.
A press release says Jesunas came to Mississippi to trap in spring 2012 though barred from buying a license because of previous wildlife-related offenses. Criminal charges say Jesunas illegally trapped 14 gray foxes, 88 raccoons, 16 bobcats, 20 muskrats, 25 otters, 10 coyotes and 181 beavers.
He took the pelts back to Wisconsin to sell them, enlisting brother Patrick Jesunas to buy a Mississippi trapper's license so Peter could obtain tags required to take bobcat and otter skins out of state. Patrick Jesunas pleaded guilty earlier.
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