$3,500 in Fines for Two Northwestern Ontario Men

A Kenora man has been fined $2,000 for shooting a deer from a roadway.
Conservation officers ran into Steven Burke with an anterless deer in the back of his truck, and a short time later saw Burke return to the site where the deer was apparently killed.
Officers spoke to Burke and an investigation revealed that he had shot his gun at the side of a road and returned to fix the site to avoid getting in trouble.
The MNR would like to remind the public that it’s illegal to discharge a firearm from, down or across a roadway.
In a seperate incident, an Atikokan man has been fined $1,500 for possessing and using a hunting licence that included fake information.
The Ministry of Natural Resources learned that Evan Hughes had harvested a deer, and that he used his fake licence to get an adult deer tag.
Hughes stated that he had lived in Ontario for six months in the past year, which wasn’t true.