FAIRBANKS, Alaska — A 45-year-old Montana man has been sentenced to pay a $3,000 fine after pleading guilty to violating the federal Lacey Act while leading a former Major League Baseball player on a 2009 sheep hunt in Alaska.
Authorities say the plea agreement Tuesday by Jason Kummerfeldt of Billings, Montana, completed the 16th and final case against employees and clients of a now-closed Anchorage guiding business, Fair Chase Hunts.
The Fairbanks Daily News-Miner reports that Kummerfeldt was an assistant guide when he took former Red Sox third baseman Wade Boggs on a hunt in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in August 2009.
Authorities say Kummerfeldt and another guide incorrectly assured Boggs he didn’t need to buy a non-resident caribou tag to also hunt for caribou unless he successfully shot an animal.
Boggs was not charged in the incident.
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