Local Rockfish Poacher Sent to Prison

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It's from last month....Am I the only one that missed this?





"William J. Lednum, 41, of Tilghman Island, Maryland, was sentenced Dec. 17, 2014 in federal court in Baltimore to a year and day in prison, respectively followed by six months of home detention as part of three years of supervised release, for conspiring to violate the Lacey Act and to defraud the United States through their illegal harvesting and sale of 185,925 pounds of striped bass. Lednum was also ordered to pay $498,293.40 in restitution to the State of Maryland for the damage caused to the Striped Bass fishery. In addition, Judge Bennett ordered Lednum to pay a fine of $40,000."

Read the entire article here:

http://www.the-chesapeake.com/2015/0...ockfish-heist/