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Man Pleads Guilty to Harassing Bear Hunters
POSTED: 06:23 AM AKDT Apr 16, 2014
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A Petersburg man who kept a hunter from shooting a black bear has pleaded guilty to harassment.

Alaska State Troopers say 48-year-old Scott Newman changed his plea last month to a case stemming from late last spring.

According to a summons issued in the case, Newman on May 25 was 30 miles south of Ketchikan at Smeaton Bay and scared off two hunters about to kill a black bear.

Trooper say Newman told the hunters to leave and that he didn't want them back in the area.

Newman was fined $500, ordered to pay restitution of $650 for the cost of the hunt and placed on probation for one year.

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Newman should have been sentenced to hunt for the other fellows family in addition to the fines.

Can't see the comments and wondered when I read the story earlier how he scared them off and asked them to leave.

Jean Ferlen Moran � Top Commenter � Anchorage, Alaska
Well I'm curious to know a little more detail please.
Did he scare off the hunters because there were cubs in the area?

Mike Smith � Top Commenter
Wow save a bear from being shot go to jail...leave trash out so bear is killed that's ok?
Reply � � 16 hours ago

Mike Erickson � Top Commenter � Founder at Alaska ATV Club
I am curious as to whether he impersonated a land owner or not. Either way the penalty is to low.
Mike
Reply � � 16 hours ago

Obviously clueless folks on the part of the first two interjecting a bunch of unknowns into an already scanty piece of reporting...

Typical, really.

Scanty, as in not including the tidbit of information that Newman is a big game guide who typically has bear hunting clients in the field in late May?

Thickening plot.

Whenever I read comments on an "outdoors related" story by any AK press, the same questions arise:

Why are obviously out of state people reading the ADN? It is a terrible paper at best, and surely there are better local papers for LA readers.

How many of these retards actually live in Alaska? (Scary thought)

How can there be so many retards?

Clearly some are not actually 'reading' the snoozepaper.

The clown did not go to jail, contrary to what top commenter Mike Smith thinks.

Very interesting.

http://alaskabearguide.com/your-guide.html

Interesting what I found on Goggle...
http://www.fieldandstream.com/node/57144

I remember the story now...

Hunting Guide Survivles Brown Bear Mauling on Alaska's Admirality Island
Article by Tony Carroll. Uploaded on July 31, 2004

A combination of bad judgment and worse luck almost cost hunting guide Scott Newman his life during a bear hunt on Alaska's Admiralty Island. His first mistake was to leave his client's side to get a better view of a brown bear. The excited client fired two or three rounds--which Newman followed up with several more--and the wounded bear ran into the brush. His second mistake was not waiting until morning to retrieve what he thought was an expired animal. A respected guide with 17 years of experience, Newman, 39, described the attack that followed from his bed at Sitka Community Hospital.

"He looked like a freight train coming at me," says Newman, who managed to get one shot off before his rifle jammed and the bear knocked him down. "He's crunching the bones in my left leg, and I'm trying to get my gun to work." The bear finally seemed to run out of energy, walked away, and died.

Newman called the Coast Guard on his handheld radio and was evacuated by helicopter. He sustained fractures to his left leg, ankle, and arm, and his right hand and forearm, as well as numerous puncture wounds.

"After I shot him, he had 30 seconds to live," Newman says. "In the meantime he chewed on me pretty good." --TONY CARROLL

And the plot gets thickerer.

Did the judgement include guide license loss?

""and scared off two hunters about to kill a black bear."""" ...what did the guy have a monster mask on ??? .... or did he scare the bear off? ..

Well, at least it does not sound like he pulled an "Al Burnett" on the guys!

Sounds like a classic DSMF to me.

Great signature line/area!

Al was famous for 3 things,,that was 1 of them!

Thank goodness I have not run into him for many years!