Four Camden men plead guilty to federal hunting violations

Four men from Camden have pleaded guilty to federal hunting violations.

U.S. Attorney for West Tennessee Michael Dunavant announced Friday that 20-year-old Hunter Rainwaters, 20-year-old Cody Brown, 20-year-old Peyton Mayberry, and 20-year-old Jay Maiden, all of Camden, pleaded guilty Monday in Jackson federal court to illegally placing bait to attract waterfowl and taking or attempting to take waterfowl over a baited area.

The area the subjects illegally baited is a TWRA owned and managed Wildlife Management Area in Benton County.

Dunavant says the effects of this baiting on a public waterfowl hunting area resulted in the closure of a portion of the WMA and the subsequent loss of hunting opportunity for other hunters in the affected area for the first 10 days of the 2017-2018 waterfowl hunting season.

In the sentencing, Rainwaters loses his hunting privileges for two years, and was fined $1,000.

Mayberry, Brown, and Maiden lose their hunting privileges for one year and were each fined $1,000.

The case was investigated by the TWRA and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.

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