News release and story archive - 2015
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Tilghman Island fisherman sentenced to prison for illegal fish harvesting in the Chesapeake BayMarch 4, 2015A U.S. district court recently sentenced Michael D. Hayden, 43, of Tilghman Island, Maryland, to 18 months in prison for illegally harvesting and selling 185,925 pounds of striped bass. Hayden was also ordered to pay $498,293.47 in restitution to the State of Maryland for the damage caused to the striped bass, as well as a $40,000 fine. |
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U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Special Agents help nab Maryland men for illegally hunting black bearsFebruary 9, 2015A U.S. Magistrate Judge sentenced two Maryland hunting guides to pay fines totaling $13,000 and to serve five years of probation and 25 hours of community service for the Maryland Department of Natural resources after they pleaded guilty to violating Maryland black bear hunting regulations in Garrett County. |
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New York wildlife inspector featured on NPR Morning EditionJanuary 29, 2015In December National Public Radio foreign affairs correspondent Jackie Northam visited the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s Valley Stream, New York Office of Law Enforcement as part of a story she was covering on the Trans-Pacific Partnership international trade agreement. |
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New Jersey man gets prison time for illegal narwhal traffickingJanuary 14, 2015In a case pursued by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Northeast Region Office of Law Enforcement, Andrew J. Zarauskas, a New Jersey resident, was sentenced to 33 months in prison for illegally importing and trafficking in narwhal tusks and associated money laundering crimes. |
