Hunter Fined

An American hunter has been fined 37 hundred dollars for illegallyhunting deer in the Trout Lake area west of Kenora.

The Ministry of Natural Resources says Thomas Terounzo of Vermont trespassed onto private property while hunting just off of Highway 596 last November.

He walked around a gate and past three "private property" signs to shoot a white-tailed deer.

The MNR says he shot the deer while pointing his rifle towards the highway, and his bullet
passed through the deer and across the road towards several homes in the area.

He has been fined 25 hundred dollars for careless hunting, a thousand dollars for trespassing while hunting and 200 dollars for failing to wear hunters orange.