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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Rowdie" data-source="post: 95772" data-attributes="member: 272"><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Roboto'"><em>Here, I'll copy and paste it for you.</em></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Roboto'"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Roboto'">WILLISTON — A father and son, who authorities say do not have North Dakota hunting licenses, are wanted in Williams County for allegedly serving as guides for bird hunters.</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Roboto'"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Roboto'">Keith, 53, and Ryan Strand, 23, each face a charge of exploitation of wildlife, a Class C felony. Warrants for the two were filed in district court this week.</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Roboto'"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Roboto'">Both men are accused of guiding hunters without an outfitter’s license and hunting and taking birds without a license. Keith Strand also allegedly supplied incorrect hunting license numbers to officials on several occasions. Authorities allege that he committed 14 misdemeanors from October 2014 through last November, and say that Ryan Strand racked up 12 misdemeanors during the two-day trip last fall.</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Roboto'"></span></span></p><p style="text-align: center"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Roboto'"></span></span></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Roboto'"></span></span></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Roboto'"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Roboto'">The number of offenses constitutes the felony charge of exploitation of wildlife, according to a relatively new statute under state law.</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Roboto'"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Roboto'">“As far as I know this is the first time somebody has been charged under that statute,” Scott Winkelman, investigation supervisor for the Game and Fish Department, said.</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Roboto'"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Roboto'">The Strands were the subject of an investigation by the state Game and Fish Department last year, when undercover game wardens booked hunting trips through Strand Outfitters, a northern Minnesota business run by the father and son.</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Roboto'"></span></span></p><p style="text-align: center"></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Roboto'">The men, who according to the Game and Fish Department, have no North Dakota outfitting or guiding licenses, accompanied undercover officers in November on a duck hunting expedition northwest of Tioga in rural Williams County.</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Roboto'"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Roboto'">Investigators eventually executed a search warrant, which turned up a number of geese and more than 25 ducks, along with a large stockpile of hunting supplies in a truck and trailer that the pair brought along on the trip, court records say.</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Roboto'"></span></span></p></blockquote><p></p>

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