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Poachers Pay $15,000 For Shooting Two Bear Cubs

(Siletz, OR) -- Two poachers have been fined 15-thousand dollars and sentenced to five years probation after fatally shooting two black bear cubs near Siletz. The Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife says 52-year-old Gail Freer and her son 29-year-old Corey Loving the second were trespassing on private land when they saw a bear cub in blackberry bushes and shot it. They later returned to get the bear and spotted a cub in the same area and shot, thinking it was the same cub. They killed a second cub. A tip was made to the Oregon poacher's hotline and Oregon State Police troopers collected the remains that had been left to waste. Freer and Loving also lost their hunting privileges for three years.

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