Browning man fined for killing three bears
The Associated Press | Hagadone News Network | UPDATED 10 years, 5 months AGO
GREAT FALLS — A man who killed three grizzly bears near his Browning home last summer has been ordered to pay $30,000 in restitution.
The U.S. Attorney’s Office announced Thursday that 75-year-old Everett Skunkcap was sentenced in connection with his guilty plea to one count of taking a threatened species.
Skunkcap said during a hearing earlier this month that he killed all three bears in defense of his grandchildren who were 100 feet away at the time.
Skunkcap used a rifle to shoot a 17-year-old grizzly bear and two male cubs west of Browning on Aug. 6.
Skunkcap told Blackfeet wildlife department employees that he also shot a grizzly bear in 2013 and would do so again.
U.S. Magistrate Judge John T. Johnston also gave Skunkcap a six-month jail term, which was suspended on the condition that he pay the restitution in a timely manner.
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