A 70-year-old Baldwin City man who was arrested in December as part of a sting operation pleaded no contest Tuesday to criminal discharge of a firearm.
Douglas County prosecutors said District Judge Peggy Kittel ordered Darrell R. Norris to pay a $500 fine and $160 in court costs for the misdemeanor conviction. He originally was charged with four misdemeanors after prosecutors alleged he fired a gun from his vehicle and did not have permission to hunt on the land.
He was cited Dec. 9 as part of the sting operation conducted south of Lawrence by Kansas Department of Wildlife, Parks and Tourism officers.
They had placed a decoy deer on land to entice would-be poachers. Three Olathe men also were charged in the sting operation.
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paul85 1 year, 2 months ago
I'd make them all retake hunter education training and wear a sign saying what they did. It's idgits like this who make hunters look bad.
motoadventure 1 year, 2 months ago
Funny thing, disappointing thing, he's over 65 so he doesn't need a license to hunt, let alone need to have taken hunter's ed.
paul85 1 year, 2 months ago
He will soon, change's are a coming.
tomatogrower 1 year, 2 months ago
He still can't hunt from the road on other people's properties.
WTF 1 year, 2 months ago
When they say deer decoy, they mean a deer that has been mounted by a taxidermist (and most likely motorized for movement of head/tail/ears). It is a real deer hide over a frame. I would put money down that you would think it is a real deer too. That does NOT however excuse the unethical and illegal behavior of what this man did. It gives hunters a bad public image.
pace 1 year, 2 months ago
70 is the new 57 now.
hitme 1 year, 2 months ago
I'd like to see a traveling DOW display case of confiscated trigger fingers.
RoeDapple 1 year, 2 months ago
You be psychic there autie. How you knoes I be lookin' here?
none2 1 year, 2 months ago
I'm trying to understand the main thing that they are upset with: 1) That he shot a deer out of season? 2) That he shot a deer without a license? 3) That he shot a deer on property that he had no such permission?
The order that it would bother me would be #3, #1, and finally #2.
tomatogrower 1 year, 2 months ago
And I believe he shot it from the road. #1 and that problem really upsets me.
none2 1 year, 2 months ago
I don't care that much if someone shoots FROM the road if we are talking unoccupied fields or countryside, just as long as they are not shooting TO the road where people are driving by.
tomatogrower 1 year, 2 months ago
Then you have never lived in the country. People do go walking on their property. Pets wander their property.
none2 1 year, 2 months ago
Nothing has said that this is a "drive-while" shooting which would affect his aim.
Whether he was aiming for something from the road or was aiming for something from within the property doesn't matter. If a dog or person is walking the property, the bullet/shell isn't going to distinguish targets based on whether it was shot off from the road or from within the property.
FlintlockRifle 1 year, 2 months ago
I have been in the woods during deer season and can see the road from my regular spot in the woods, and have seen cars and pick-ups stop and shoot at deer standing in open fields, of course they couldn't see me watching , never got a tag number to turn them in---just $650.00 in fine, should have been more
RoeDapple 1 year, 2 months ago
And that is the big issue FlintlockRifle! That deer you may not be shooting at due to the road being just beyond it could easily be between you and the poacher shooting from the road.
riverdrifter 1 year, 2 months ago
What Roe said. It's been years ago but I was up a tree stand about 200 yards from a township road and d-bags pulled up and shot at deer from the road -right in my direction. It was a very helpless feeling. You're up there 16 feet and there's nowhere to go. I would hope there was a throw-in on the sentencing wherein this jerkbait doesn't apply for a deer permit for the next few years.
wissmo 1 year, 2 months ago
Back in the day at times the law or DNR would look the other way if they felt the person shooting the animal needed the meat. I know they used to do this around here.
RoeDapple 1 year, 2 months ago
If it weren't for hunters deer would be extinct.
JJE007 1 year, 2 months ago
Dear LJWorld, Please do not refer to poachers as hunters. There is a big difference!
JackMcKee 1 year, 2 months ago
local good ole boy gets nabbed by the cops and not one person has posted in his defense? some of you are really off your games.
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