News - Man charged with cruelty to animals

[Rick]

The Mahnomen County Attorney’s Office has filed two misdemeanor charges against a Moorhead boater following an investigation by the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources. Steven William Timm, 55, allegedly used a pontoon to chase a large buck that was swimming … Full Story

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[DonBo]

A maximum of $3000 in fines and restitutions and a maximum of 6 months in jail (He'll probably never get anywhere close to either of these.) doesn't seem like near enough for a violation as sickening as this.

 I hope some day the courts start to take game violations more seriously than they have in past.

 

[rundrave]

 I hope some day the courts start to take game violations more seriously than they have in past.

 

Couldnt have said it better myself. I have a feeling this guys lawyer will get the guy off because they have to prove he was trying to kill and not guide it to shore like he claimed?

MAHNOMEN, MN -

Prosecutors have charged a Moorhead man with animal cruelty and chasing a wild animal with a motor vehicle for allegedly chasing a deer with a pontoon boat until it drowned.

Fifty-five-year-old Steven William Timm was charged in Mahnomen County on Wednesday with two misdemeanor counts stemming from an incident on Tulaby Lake on Sept. 6. Witnesses told a conservation officer they saw a man chase a swimming buck with a pontoon boat until it died.

The Department of Natural Resources incident report says Timm told the officer he was trying to steer the deer back to shore, not hurt it.

Timm's first court appearance is set for Oct. 29.

A man answering the phone number listed for Timm in the incident report denied he was Timm and hung up.

Edited October 7, 2015 by rundrave