Cops: Hunter shot 40-pound bear cub
October 15, 2007
Police say one Staten Island hunter is a good example of a bad example — what not to do while hunting.
On Saturday morning, the opening day of big game bow season, police say Alfons Ndokaj shot and killed a 40-pound cub — about the size of a beaver, and less than a year old — near Mountaindale Road in the Town of Mamakating, in the Phillipsport area. Someone tipped off Department of Environmental Conservation police, and they staked out the area.
Ndokaj took the cub to a taxidermist in Middletown. He admitted he had been hunting deer over a bait pile of apples and corn. He had a hunting license in his wife's name, but didn't have one with him in his own name.
DEC police charged Ndokaj with unlawfully taking a bear cub, a misdemeanor punishable by up to a year in jail and a fine up to $2,000; possessing someone else's hunting license and hunting over bait, violations; and with driving an unregistered ATV and operating it on a public highway, traffic infractions. DEC police seized the bear from the taxidermist.
Ndokaj was released pending an appearance Oct. 31 in Mamakating Town Court.
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