Postby lowbar » Thu Aug 02, 2007 12:26 pm
A little more about it:
Mississippi Department of Wildlife, Fisheries and Park worked with the United States Fish and Wildlife Service to investigate these violations and will continue to closely monitor these types of violations.
“The importation of white-tailed deer into the state of Mississippi is a serious concern,†said Robert T. Oliveri, Resident Agent-In-Charge of Law Enforcement for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in Alabama, Arkansas, Mississippi, and Louisiana. “The United States Fish and Wildlife Service Office of Law Enforcement will continue to assist states when investigating these types of cases.â€
BACKGROUND
The case originated over two years ago when local citizens began reporting seemingly docile whitetail deer with tags in their ears on Donahoo’s property. Donahoo owned approximately 1,000 acres in Humphreys County, Mississippi. Surrounding that property was an eight-foot high “game fence†that effectively confined whitetail deer within the enclosure. The subsequent investigation eventually uncovered that Donahoo was purchasing live whitetail deer from various breeders located in southern Louisiana and was having them transported to Humphreys County, Mississippi. Donahoo paid breeders for these whitetail deer with checks written to various businesses including one breeder’s seafood business. That check drafted on the Donahoo Fish Farms account, signed by Jimmy Donahoo, and dated November 16, 2004 was for $6,400. Donahoo wrote on the check that it was payment for“fingerlings†when, in fact, it was for whitetail deer. After agreeing on which deer Donahoo would purchase, the deer were transported across the state line in a trailer. Donahoo told an informant working for the United States Fish and Wildlife Service that the breeder would bring the deer at night in a black trailer, and the trailer had an automatic hitch. Donahoo stated that had the breeder been stopped by the authorities on the highway, he would have been able to “release†the trailer and there would be “deer all over the ... highway.â€
Jimmy Donahoo, along with his nephew Shea Donahoo would then unload the deer inside the fenced enclosure owned and operated by Jimmy Donahoo who planned eventually to raise a herd and sell hunts within the enclosure. Donahoo told the informant that he could dart a deer and measure its antlers, and if the antlers were big enough, he could sell hunts for as much as $20,000.
Jimmy Donahoo planned to tell authorities if investigated that the deer inside the enclosure were not brought from out of state, but were deer caught inside the fence when it was put in place. Because passers-by were reporting that deer inside the pen had tags in their ears, Donahoo’s plan was to tell the authorities, if asked, that they had simply darted the deer within the enclosure and tagged the deer at that time.
Sounds like to me that he needs to get caged up and darted in the booty. 
