A man from Mobile, Ala., has been sentenced to six months in a Ketchikan jail and ordered to pay $20,000 in fines for illegal hunting in Alaska, according to the Alaska State Troopers. They say 35-year-old Donald Ray Hawkins was first arrested here in 1990, after he was caught hunting illegal for caribou in the Iliamna Lake area.

Troopers say he was back in the state in 1994, however, guiding without a license, helping with illegal same-day, airborne hunting of caribou, and wasting the meat of Sitka blacktail deer.

He was arrested in the spring of 1994, troopers said, while on another illegal hunt on Prince of Wales Island in Southeast.

After his conviction in Craig District court in Southeast, he lost his Alaska hunting, fishing and guiding privileges for five years; got placed on probation for 10 years; and was forced to sign a waiver of extradition to assure his compliance with the Alaska court orders when he leaves the state.

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Anchorage Daily News