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CHEYENNE—Ten Sleep outfitter Richard “R.C.” Carter was sentenced to five months in prison Monday for leading illegal hunts for several out-of-state hunters on his family’s ranch.
Professional snowboarder Mark Carter, R.C.’s brother, received three years probation for his role in the operation, while Oregon hunter Steven Farah was sentenced to 30 days home confinement by U.S. District Court Judge Nancy Freudenthal.
R.C. Carter, the owner of Big Horn Adventure Outfitters, previously admitted in court that he took more than a dozen hunters, including Farah, out on his family’s property from 2003 to 2009 to kill elk, deer and antelope.
Mark Carter and his father, Richard Carter Sr., previously testified that they used their own tags on the animals shot, then falsely claimed in affidavits that they killed them.
R.C. and Mark Carter said that they then helped to transport the animals back to the hunters’ homes in Oregon in violation of federal law.
The Carters procured many landowner tags, according to the federal indictment against them, because in 2004 they subdivided their property into eight 160-acre parcels. The move allowed them and members of their family to receive a landowner elk and antelope license for each parcel.
R.C. Carter charged each hunter an average of about $7,500 per hunt, according to federal prosecutor Darrell Fun.
Richard Carter Sr., as well as Matt Robinson, another Oregon resident who participated in the hunts, will be sentenced June 13.
R.C. Carter received permission from Freudenthal not to report to prison until October so he can put his ranch’s affairs in order.
On top of their sentences, both R.C. and Mark Carter each voluntarily paid $75,000 in restitution to the Wyoming Game and Fish Department.
After Freudenthal announced the sentence, R.C. Carter said that since high school he had been led to believe that swapping out hunting tags wasn’t that big of a deal.
“I think the best use for me is to spread the word that these crimes are taken seriously,” he said.
Prosecutors urged Freudenthal to go easy on Mark Carter, saying he played only a minor role in the operation by doing routine chores and cooking.
Carter, a backcountry snowboarder, placed second at the inaugural Natural Selection Invitational in 2008, won a North Face Masters Series stop in 2010, and has been featured in numerous films about the sport.
Mark Carter apologized for his actions Monday, telling Freudenthal that he’s lost snowboarding contracts because of the publicity stemming from the incident.
“It’s ruined my life up to this point,” he said.
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Professional snowboarder Mark Carter, R.C.’s brother, received three years probation for his role in the operation, while Oregon hunter Steven Farah was sentenced to 30 days home confinement by U.S. District Court Judge Nancy Freudenthal.
R.C. Carter, the owner of Big Horn Adventure Outfitters, previously admitted in court that he took more than a dozen hunters, including Farah, out on his family’s property from 2003 to 2009 to kill elk, deer and antelope.
Mark Carter and his father, Richard Carter Sr., previously testified that they used their own tags on the animals shot, then falsely claimed in affidavits that they killed them.
R.C. and Mark Carter said that they then helped to transport the animals back to the hunters’ homes in Oregon in violation of federal law.
The Carters procured many landowner tags, according to the federal indictment against them, because in 2004 they subdivided their property into eight 160-acre parcels. The move allowed them and members of their family to receive a landowner elk and antelope license for each parcel.
R.C. Carter charged each hunter an average of about $7,500 per hunt, according to federal prosecutor Darrell Fun.
Richard Carter Sr., as well as Matt Robinson, another Oregon resident who participated in the hunts, will be sentenced June 13.
R.C. Carter received permission from Freudenthal not to report to prison until October so he can put his ranch’s affairs in order.
On top of their sentences, both R.C. and Mark Carter each voluntarily paid $75,000 in restitution to the Wyoming Game and Fish Department.
After Freudenthal announced the sentence, R.C. Carter said that since high school he had been led to believe that swapping out hunting tags wasn’t that big of a deal.
“I think the best use for me is to spread the word that these crimes are taken seriously,” he said.
Prosecutors urged Freudenthal to go easy on Mark Carter, saying he played only a minor role in the operation by doing routine chores and cooking.
Carter, a backcountry snowboarder, placed second at the inaugural Natural Selection Invitational in 2008, won a North Face Masters Series stop in 2010, and has been featured in numerous films about the sport.
Mark Carter apologized for his actions Monday, telling Freudenthal that he’s lost snowboarding contracts because of the publicity stemming from the incident.
“It’s ruined my life up to this point,” he said.
Read more: http://trib.com/news/state-and-regi...a8a-5c14-a557-cf16e9a420a2.html#ixzz1wvxJizMG
