GENTRY PLEADS GUILTY TO ILLEGAL HUNTING CHARGES

Last updated: Tuesday, November 28, 2006

GENTRY PLEADS GUILTY TO ILLEGAL HUNTING CHARGES

Country star TROY LEE GENTRY has agreed to give up hunting in Minnesota for five years after pleading guilty to falsely registering a captive bear as a wild kill in 2004.

Troy Gentry at the 41st Annual Academy of Country Music Awards held at the MGM Grand Hotel and Casino. Las Vegas, Nevada - 23.05.06

The MONTGOMERY GENTRY singer, 39, also agreed to pay a $15,000 (GBP8,300) fine and hand the bow and arrow he used to kill the bear over to authorities under his plea agreement.

The last-minute plea, made yesterday (27NOV06), kept Gentry from a court trial, which had been scheduled to start the same day.

Gentry's hunting guide LEE MARVIN GREENLY also pleaded guilty to two felony charges of helping hunters shoot bears at illegal baiting stations he maintained near Sandstone, Minnesota.

Greenly faces a five-year prison sentence for each count.

Gentry has always maintained he bought the bear from Greenly with the understanding they would videotape a hunt inside the bear's enclosure, which was surrounded by an electric fence.

In exchange for his plea, federal prosecutors dropped a felony charge of violating a local Minnesota act which bans possessing or transporting illegally obtained wildlife.

Source: WENN

| Tuesday, November 28, 2006

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