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Poor sportsmen, lawbreakers and poachers on the way to Maryland courtrooms for fishing and hunting violations

Poached Rockfish displayed by Natural Resources Police of a recent catch nabbed by illegal fishermen.

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<h1><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;the-chesapeake&period;com&sol;&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2015&sol;02&sol;Hillbilly-Pirates-stories-from-the-Naked-Country&period;jpg"><img class&equals;"alignleft size-large wp-image-7754" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;the-chesapeake&period;com&sol;&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2015&sol;02&sol;Hillbilly-Pirates-stories-from-the-Naked-Country-1024x513&period;jpg" alt&equals;"Hillbilly Pirates stories from the Naked Country" width&equals;"1024" height&equals;"513" &sol;><&sol;a><&sol;h1>&NewLine;<h2>Poor sportsmen&comma; lawbreakers and poachers on the way to Maryland courtrooms for fishing and hunting violations<&sol;h2>&NewLine;<p><span style&equals;"font-size&colon; 12pt&semi;">ANNAPOLIS&comma; MD&period; – As the seasons change&comma; the outlaw hunters and pirate poachers of the Chesapeake continue to find ways to take game and fish without obeying rules and laws&period;<&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><span style&equals;"font-size&colon; 12pt&semi;">According to NRP reports&comma; the Maryland Natural Resources Police officers charged poachers in Queen Anne’s and Washington counties with fishing and hunting violations and arrested a felon with multiple firearms in Frederick County in recent cases&period;<&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<h2>Lame story given to NRP by Thomas Lease over illegal guns and deer<&sol;h2>&NewLine;<p><span style&equals;"font-size&colon; 12pt&semi;">Frederick County &&num;8211&semi; On Sunday&comma; Nov&period; 22&comma; 2015&comma; an officer responding to a trespassing call from the Frederick County Sheriff’s Office arrested Thomas Blain Lease&comma; 31&comma; of Taneytown on a charge of being a felon in possession of five rifles and issued citations for numerous hunting violations&period;<&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><span style&equals;"font-size&colon; 12pt&semi;">The officer went to the 5100 block of Ijamsville Road and encountered two men standing by a pick-up truck with a field dressed deer and two deer skulls in the bed&period; Neither the carcass nor the skulls were tagged&comma; as required by state law&period;<&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><span style&equals;"font-size&colon; 12pt&semi;">Lease told the officer the deer was given to him by a friend&comma; who had struck the animal with his vehicle&period; But the officer noticed what appeared to be a &period;22-caliber bullet hole in the carcass and a &period;22-caliber rifle nearby&period;<&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><span style&equals;"font-size&colon; 12pt&semi;">Lease told the officer the rifle was unloaded&comma; but it was not&period; A consent search by the officer found four additional unloaded rifles in the truck&period; Lease said several of the guns were lent to him by a friend&period;<&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><span style&equals;"font-size&colon; 12pt&semi;">Upon questioning&comma; Lease said he had wounded the deer with his crossbow earlier in the day&comma; but needed the rifle to kill it&period; He and his father were tracking the wounded deer when a resident reported they were trespassing&period;<&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<figure id&equals;"attachment&lowbar;10020" aria-describedby&equals;"caption-attachment-10020" style&equals;"width&colon; 300px" class&equals;"wp-caption alignleft"><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;the-chesapeake&period;com&sol;&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2015&sol;11&sol;Front-page-Vol-9-No-5&period;jpg"><img class&equals;"size-medium wp-image-10020" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;the-chesapeake&period;com&sol;&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2015&sol;11&sol;Front-page-Vol-9-No-5-300x225&period;jpg" alt&equals;"New edition of THE CHESAPEAKE TODAY now on newsstands in Delaware&comma; Maryland &amp&semi; Virginia" width&equals;"300" height&equals;"225" &sol;><&sol;a><figcaption id&equals;"caption-attachment-10020" class&equals;"wp-caption-text">New edition of THE CHESAPEAKE TODAY now on newsstands in Delaware&comma; Maryland &amp&semi; Virginia<&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;<p>Lease<span style&equals;"font-size&colon; 12pt&semi;"> had already checked in six deer this season&comma; including a 14-point buck killed with a crossbow on Oct&period; 21&period; However&comma; he had not purchased a Bonus Antlered Deer Stamp before killing the deer on Sunday&period;<&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><span style&equals;"font-size&colon; 12pt&semi;">During his investigation&comma; the officer found that Lease had been convicted in 2008 on a charge of second-degree assault&comma; a felony&period;<&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><span style&equals;"font-size&colon; 12pt&semi;">In addition to the illegal firearms possession charge&comma; Lease was cited for carrying a loaded weapon in a vehicle&comma; hunting with a rifle out of season&comma; hunting for bonus deer without a stamp&comma; hunting with a rifle that fails to meet muzzle energy requirements&comma; possessing untagged deer parts and driving with an expired registration&period;<&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><span style&equals;"font-size&colon; 12pt&semi;">A date to appear in Frederick District Court has not been set&period;<&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<h1><span style&equals;"font-size&colon; 12pt&semi;">Nearly two dozen illegal rockfish found with three poachers<&sol;span><&sol;h1>&NewLine;<figure id&equals;"attachment&lowbar;10022" aria-describedby&equals;"caption-attachment-10022" style&equals;"width&colon; 300px" class&equals;"wp-caption alignleft"><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;the-chesapeake&period;com&sol;&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2015&sol;11&sol;Illegally-caught-rockfish&period;jpg"><img class&equals;"size-full wp-image-10022" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;the-chesapeake&period;com&sol;&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2015&sol;11&sol;Illegally-caught-rockfish&period;jpg" alt&equals;"Illegally caught rockfish" width&equals;"300" height&equals;"190" &sol;><&sol;a><figcaption id&equals;"caption-attachment-10022" class&equals;"wp-caption-text">Illegally caught rockfish<&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;<p><span style&equals;"font-size&colon; 12pt&semi;">Queen Anne’s County &&num;8211&semi; Three men&comma; were charged Nov&period; 19&comma; <&sol;span>2015<span style&equals;"font-size&colon; 12pt&semi;">&comma; with poaching striped bass by officers on an overnight saturation patrol in Kent Narrows&period;<&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><span style&equals;"font-size&colon; 12pt&semi;">Officers stopped two vehicles under surveillance and found 28 striped <&sol;span>bass<span style&equals;"font-size&colon; 12pt&semi;">&comma; 21 of which were undersized&period;<&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><span style&equals;"font-size&colon; 12pt&semi;">Alejandro Argueta <&sol;span>Lanaverde<span style&equals;"font-size&colon; 12pt&semi;">&comma; 38&comma; and <&sol;span>Gonzolo<span style&equals;"font-size&colon; 12pt&semi;"> Martinez Pena&comma; 46&comma; both of Annapolis&comma; and Franklin Rafael Flores Santos&comma; 27&comma; of Hyattsville&comma; received citations for exceeding the daily creel limit&comma; possessing undersized striped bass and possessing striped bass between midnight and 5 a&period;m&period;<&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><span style&equals;"font-size&colon; 12pt&semi;">Santos is scheduled to appear in Queen Anne’s District Court on Jan&period; 7&period; The Annapolis men have a Feb&period; 4 court date&period; If found guilty&comma; each man could be fined as much as &dollar;3&comma;000&period;<&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<h2>Dummy Duck Hunter Faces &dollar;3&comma;000 in Fines for Violations<&sol;h2>&NewLine;<p><span style&equals;"font-size&colon; 12pt&semi;">Washington County – NRP cops say that a West Virginia man saved on the cost of buying proper duck hunting stamps&period;  But he faces hefty fines&period;<&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><span style&equals;"font-size&colon; 12pt&semi;">John Andrew Corbett&comma; 33&comma; of Winchester&comma; Va&period;&comma; was charged Friday with illegal waterfowl hunting by an officer on patrol near Beaver Creek&period;<&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><span style&equals;"font-size&colon; 12pt&semi;">The officer saw two hunters near duck decoys in the creek and asked to check their licenses&period;<&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><span style&equals;"font-size&colon; 12pt&semi;">Corbett had neither a license nor a Maryland Migratory Game Bird Stamp&period; In addition to receiving citations for those two violations&comma; he also received a warning for hunting without a federal duck stamp&period;<&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><span style&equals;"font-size&colon; 12pt&semi;">He is scheduled to appear in Washington District Court on Jan&period; 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