Feds have ’cooperators’ in hunting case
Wichita ? A federal prosecutor says the government has “a number of cooperators” in a wide-ranging poaching case stemming from guided deer hunts in Kansas.
The Justice Department is targeting more than 60 hunters across the nation for allegedly poaching deer during the guided hunts at Camp Lone Star in south-central Kansas.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Matt Treaster said during a hearing Friday that the government’s plan is not to add any more defendants to the case against Camp Lone Star owner James Bobby Butler Jr., and his brother Marlin Jackson Butler, who worked as a guide.
Defense attorney Roger Falk told the judge that search warrants were served in Texas, Louisiana and Kansas.
U.S. District Judge Wesley Brown granted an extension and set a Feb. 1 trial for the brothers, both of Martinsville, Texas.




