California Man Sentenced for Felony Killing of Big Game Animal
A California man recently was sentenced in the 11th District Court to a gross misdemeanor and booked into the Mineral County Detention Center for the felony killing of a big game animal. Alan Berryessa of Cedarville, Calif. was sentenced to pay a forfeiture of $5,000 to the Nevada Department of Wildlife (NDOW), forfeit any property seized during the investigation and be placed on probation, not to exceed three years after NDOW officers discovered that Berryessa had been applying for resident Nevada big games tags “consistently from 1989 to 2015”. He also had claimed that he was a Nevada resident since April 1988, had been using an addresses which belonged to another person to claim residency and had harvested animals within Nevada. Berryessa had used four different Reno addresses from 1989 to 2015. Since 2000, he had drawn nine big game tags. In 2013, he drew a Desert Bighorn Sheep tag and the following year, drew a California Bighorn Sheep tag. A records check by NDOW showed that Berryessa held a valid Nevada driver’s license but had no vehicle registered within the state. The billing address for the credit card used to purchase the tags, was linked to a Cedarville, Calif. address. During an interview with Berryessa, he stated that he had lived in Reno for a couple of years and had “maintained possession of his Nevada driver’s license ever...
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