Bonners Ferry man sentenced for illegal cat hunt

COEUR d’ALENE — A Naples man who pleaded guilty to aiding and abetting the poaching of a mountain lion in Idaho was sentenced on Wednesday to five years of probation and a five-year hunting ban.

Tod S. Navarro, 50, pleaded guilty to violating the federal Lacey Act in April.

According to a plea agreement in his case, Navarro admitted that he and two codefendants took three North Dakota men hunting for mountain lions even though the trio did not have Idaho permits or tags.

Navarro and his accomplices put their tags on the mountain lions killed by the North Dakota hunters.

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