ME: Turner man pleads guilty to illegal hunting, drug trafficking

December 12, 2012

From BangorDailyNews.com

Everett T. Leonard enters a guilty plea on numerous charges including deer poaching and night hunting in Androscoggin County Superior Court Tuesday morning.
 
AUBURN, Maine — Everett T. Leonard of Turner pleaded guilty Tuesday morning to a dozen charges, including many misdemeanor hunting violations and a felony drug charge.
 
Leonard, 33, along with his father, Everett H. Leonard, also of Turner, was indicted in May 2011 on a total of 35 charges of illegal hunting, drug trafficking, criminal trespass and indecent conduct.
 
The charges, which followed a four-month investigation by the Maine Warden Service, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the Pennsylvania Game Commission, were in connection with crimes that occurred between September and November of 2010.
 
Leonard pleaded guilty to five counts of hunting under revocation, four counts of night hunting, molesting wildlife, driving deer and unlawful possession of the narcotic drug oxycodone.
 
More than a dozen other charges were dismissed by prosecutors.

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