OMAHA: Feds squeeze poachers’ pal out of sausage business The Omahan used a filthy garage to process tons of meat, including deer he shot from his bathroom window. - (Omaha World-Herald (Nebraska))
March 21, 2008 – 6:43 pmhttp://www.meatpoultry.com/news/newsfinder.asp?Action=UserDisplayFullDocument&orgId=604&docId=l:763453891&topicId=14427&start=1&topics=single
Attention, deer poachers: Jack McClanahan is out of the black market sausage business.
McClanahan, who federal agents say churned out and sold tons of tainted summer sausage from a filthy garage, was fined $10,000 and sentenced to three years of probation Wednesday in U.S. District Court.
Federal officials were cited as saing McClanahan’s processing operation was widely known among deer poachers, who fed his meat grinder with about 150 deer a year from Nebraska and Iowa.
Mark Webb, a U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service special agent, was cited as saying many of the animals were poached — shot illegally at night or out of season.
McClanahan also told federal undercover agents that he sometimes shot deer at night with a rifle from the bathroom window of his home in Omaha’s Ponca Hills neighborhood, retrieving carcasses in the morning.
He baited deer with corn scattered under trees about 100 yards from his house. When he would […]
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