Swan shooters face wanton waste charges, too

According to the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, two Fort Wainwright Stryker Brigade soldiers out of a group that a witness says shot two swans last September at Meier's Lake near Paxon are also facing charges of wanton waste and illegally taking big game. A federal investigation of the two turned up evidence there might be more to the hunting trip than they were letting on, and Alaska Wildlife Troopers were brought in on the case. In an interview of one of the accused, Thomas Alley, troopers learned enough to charge Alley and his partner with illegally killing and wantonly wasting a paddle bull moose and a caribou. Alley was arrested in Fairbanks by troopers on Saturday, two days before he was scheduled to be transferred to Fort Lewis in Washington, and the other, Anthony Dougherty, has been summoned to a Glennallen court in March. Read much, much more, here, including a classic statement Alley made according to the Trooper complaint concerning the reason he doesn't think he should stay in Alaska.