Tracker / Guide Catches Triple Murder Suspect

The first article posted about this yesterday hailed him as a hero (which he is in my opinion), the second posted today (linked above) mentions at the end of the article that our hero has been convicted for illegally selling bear gall baldders, I am sure before it's all over the Mounties will actually find something to charge our hero with (like pointing a firearm....), especially after embarrasing them by doing their job for them !
 
mckrob said:
The first article posted about this yesterday hailed him as a hero (which he is in my opinion), the second posted today (linked above) mentions at the end of the article that our hero has been convicted for illegally selling bear gall baldders, I am sure before it's all over the Mounties will actually find something to charge our hero with (like pointing a firearm....), especially after embarrasing them by doing their job for them !
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He's a hero for what he's done here, but I have a hard time reconciling with him being a trophy hunter. In my personal view, if you are hunting to eat or to protect your livestock, that's one thing, but to hunt for a gallbladder and claw is just wrong. Too bad he caught Blaze before he got to the murderer...
 
Hmm, hadn't heard that about the gall bladders...if he is a poacher that is no good. He is a bit of a celebrity around here right now...this is right down the highway from me, been to Merritt hundreds of times, remember dozens of the trips. I will look into the story on the gall bladders here, I probably know people who know this guy.
 
The article says he was only convicted of selling the gall bladder, not sure if he was a poacher per se, it could be he was just selling gall bladders from bears legally taken, (from his hunting clients say ?) which although still illegal, not quite as bad as poaching... who knows.

I just dislike that the media brings these things up tainting the the "heroic" deed in the process, it reminds me of a few years back when an Air Transat pilot made a remarkable emergency landing in the Azores after gliding his Airbus A330 100miles over the ocean "dead stick" without engines, saving all on board. It came out afterward that he had an old conviction for smuggling pot into the USA, this completely overshadowed the good deed and should have never even been brought up by the media in my opinion.
 
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