Aberdeen man pleads guilty to shooting protected eagle
By The Associated Press April 30, 2021
OXFORD A Mississippi man has pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge of shooting a protected bald eagle.
Timothy Lee Childers, 69, of Aberdeen, entered the guilty plea Wednesday in federal court in Oxford, according to a news release Thursday from the U.S. attorney’s office in northern Mississippi.
Childers shot and killed the eagle on his property in Monroe County on Sept. 11, 2020, the release said.
U.S. Magistrate Judge David A. Sanders put Childers on probation for one year and ordered him to pay $3,500 in restitution to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and a fine of $3,500.
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OXFORD, Miss. (AP) - A Mississippi man has pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge of shooting a protected bald eagle.
Timothy Lee Childers, 69, of Aberdeen, entered the guilty plea Wednesday in federal court in Oxford, according to a news release Thursday from the U.S. attorney’s office in northern Mississippi.
Childers shot and killed the eagle on his property in Monroe County on Sept. 11, 2020, the release said.
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April 19, 2021
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