Two Challis men accused of multiple offenses related to their guided big game hunts have both pleaded not guilty to the charges.
A jury trial for Jerrod Farr and Michael Scott is scheduled for May 13 in Pocatello.
Two Challis men accused of multiple offenses related to their guided big game hunts have both pleaded not guilty to the charges.
A jury trial for Jerrod Farr and Michael Scott is scheduled for May 13 in Pocatello.
On March 21 in Boise, Scott entered not guilty pleas to two counts of violating the federal Lacey Act, which combats trafficking in illegally taken wildlife. Paid guides and outfitters are deemed to be selling wildlife under the act.
Farr entered not guilty pleas to five charges during his April 4 video arraignment. Two of the charges are for allegedly violating the Lacey Act, two are for providing false information to an officer and one is for working without a special-use permit.
Neither man was jailed in connection with the charges.
Farr and Scott were indicted Feb. 27 by a grand jury. Farr owns White Cloud Outfitters, which he purchased from Scott in 2019. Scott works as a guide for the outfitting business.
According to the indictment, Scott took a client into hunt area 19 where guided hunts are not permitted and the client killed a bighorn sheep there on Oct. 2, 2020. Farr had applied the day before for a hunt permit in another area, but on Oct. 5, 2020, his wife told the Idaho Outfitters and Guides Licensing Board they did not need the permit they’d requested Oct. 1 because the hunter had killed a bighorn sheep in area where White Cloud Outfitters was permitted to guide hunters.
On Jan. 28, 2021, Farr submitted required reports to the Forest Service related to the 2020 outfitting season, but the report contained no information about the Oct. 2, 2020, hunt.
Personnel from the Idaho Department of Fish and Game later confirmed that four bighorn sheep had been killed by White Cloud Outfitters clients in that off-limits hunt area 19 in 2017, 2019, 2020 and 2022 and Scott told a Fish and Game investigator that the four kills were in area 19, where White Cloud Outfitters was not allowed to guide hunters.
Another allegation relates to a Feb. 26, 2022, mountain lion hunt. The indictment states that Farr took a client to area 19, where guided hunting is not permitted. While the hunter was on Bureau of Land Management land about 250 yards from the area 19 boundary when he killed the mountain lion, the charge alleges that Farr had taken the client and hunting dogs into the off-limits area 19.
According the indictment, Farr omitted any reference to that Feb. 26, 2022, mountain lion hunt from the reports he filed with the Forest Service on Jan. 10, 2023, and reports he filed with the BLM around that time.
Another successful bighorn sheep hunt led by Scott allegedly occurred in area 19 on Aug. 31 and Sept. 1, 2022. The client in that hunt confirmed the location to Fish and Game and Forest Service investigators.
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