DENVER -- A Los Angeles sheriff's deputy has been convicted of poaching.
Deputy Frank Bowne, 32, of Lancaster, Calif., was fined $4,199 for illegally killing a deer after dark on private land near Bayfield last October.
Witnesses reported hearing shots and when they went to the scene saw a truck with California license plates. A dead deer was found in the area the next day. The California truck was found at a nearby hunting camp, but the hunters denied knowledge of the poaching.
The pickup was seized and after six months of investigation Bowne and two other men, Sig Hall, 31, of Queen Creek, Ariz., and Rodney Ludington, 33, of Aztec, N.M. were arrested. All pleaded guilty. Hall and Ludington were fined $159 and ordered to perform 24 hours of public service.
