MINNEAPOLIS — A choose sentenced a central Minnesota man accused of killing a 500-pound black bear in his yard on parole and briefly stripped of his looking privileges.

Morrison County District Decide Leonard Weiler sentenced Michael Theilen, 42, on Wednesday after Thielen pleaded responsible to taking and holding a serious sport within the low season. The Minneapolis Star Tribune reported.

Weiler gave Theilen two years probation and disadvantaged him of looking privileges for 3 years in Minnesota and a lot of the remainder of the nation.

Its lack of looking privileges extends to each state that’s a part of the Interstate Wildlife Violators Compact. In line with the Nationwide Affiliation of Conservation Regulation Enforcement Chiefs, the one states the place Thielen will be hunted are Massachusetts and Hawaii.

The choose additionally ordered Thielen to pay $800 in damages and $685 in fines and charges. He mentioned the state Division of Pure Sources would maintain the rifle he used to kill the bear. He put aside a one-year jail sentence and denied many different prices.

In line with a legal criticism, the State Division of Pure Sources acquired clues in September 2021 that Thielen had shot and killed the bear within the yard of his house about 5 miles outdoors of Little Falls two months earlier.

Thielen informed the Star Tribune final 12 months that the bear killed geese and chickens on his property and brought about $2,500 in harm. He mentioned he requested DNR for assist twice.

DNR officers decided that the bear was thought-about a reward by way of the licensed Boone & Crockett scoring system.

Theilen declined to touch upon his protection and sentence on Thursday.