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Nick Brown

Attorney General’s Office files criminal charges against individual alleged to have baited and killed bears and elk in North Bend

SEATTLE — Today the Attorney General’s Office filed 32 criminal charges against Jason Smith of North Bend for illegal hunting. The charges, which include two felonies, 27 gross misdemeanors and three misdemeanors, allege that Smith unlawfully baited and killed bears and elk, and unlawfully hunted deer.