Tennessee poacher threatens to kill landowner, gets jail and lifetime hunting ban

[Eugene]

Source: USA Today

Poacher threatens to kill landowner, gets jail and lifetime hunting ban

David Strege like
March 1, 2024 12:01 pm ET

A 22-year-old man pointed a gun at and threatened to kill a landowner who confronted him about illegally hunting at night with a spotlight from a vehicle during a closed season.

William Franklin Stamey Jr., who had a previous poaching conviction and obviously did not learn from his poor choice, received a felony conviction for his latest misdeeds, which cost him $12,500 in restitution, along with fines and court costs. The 22-year-old also was banned for life from hunting and forfeited a spotlight, a muzzleloader, a rifle, and a compound bow, along with deer meat, turkey parts and 14 deer racks.

On Friday, Stamey pleaded guilty in Hawkins County Circuit Court to aggravated assault, spotlighting deer, hunting from a motor vehicle, and a second and third offense of hunting big game in closed season, the Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency disclosed in a Facebook post.

“Stamey was ordered to serve six months of a four-year sentence for the aggravated assault charge, and six months for each of the hunting big game in closed season charges, with all jail time to run concurrently,” the post stated.

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[brewens]

1. I went to school with a guy that killed a wolf illegally here in Idaho. He showed off the tail and someone turned

him in. When they raided his house the found his weed grow! Ouch!

The little bastard never told me he was growing! I would have been a good customer. LOL

That's the way they do it though. A grower unloads his weed elsewhere. No one locally can know if they are smart.

[yonder]

2. That lifetime loss of hunting privileges will have little effect I think.

Sounds like the mold has been set for that 22 year old jerk. Daddy Stamey learnt him real good. No gubmint is gonna be tellin' him what to do.

I'm betting that after 6 months in the lockup he'll be up to his old ways in Tennessee or another state. Should have been 4 years fixed at a minimum, IMO.

[3Hotdogs]

3. No. But turning in the guns -----

No true citizen of Ameristan should be treated that way.

[littlemissmartypants]

4. He didn't even bother to try to harvest his kills apparently. He's a certified ass for sure.

“Over a three-and-a-half-year period, Stamey was charged with killing or assisting in killing 15 deer illegally, and admitted to poaching 20 deer from the road in 2020 alone,” Pinkston said. “Sadly, most of these deer were left lying and were never recovered.”