Man Convicted Of Violating Mentor's Deer-Hunting Law
The man admitted to trespassing on someone else's property to collect a deer he shot
A man was convicted Tuesday of violating Mentor's new deer hunting law. In October, Timothy Hejuk shot a deer with his bow while on property where he had permission to hunt. However, the deer wandered to an adjacent property on Hopkins Road where Hejuk did not have hunting privileges before it died. Instead of contacting the police department -- which the law requires him to do -- or asking for the neighbor's permission to collect the deer, Hejuk waited until night, sneaked onto the adjacent property and took the deer, Mentor Police Chief Daniel Llewellyn said. When the person who lives on the Hopkins Road property awoke the next day, he found blood from the deer kill on his land and called the polce department. Police located Hejuk and …
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Karl Hubrath
8:41 am on Tuesday, November 27, 2012
Sorry None of your buz, but it is the law and the hunters very well know what is expected of them; there is no excuse for breaking the law. I would agree to help change the law. I would agree to help band hunting deer all together as well in Mentor that is. But to disregard the law all together and expect a slap on the wrist? I do not like the hunting at all. God bless. more ›