Three big game hunting guides in Idaho have been charged with arranging illegal mountain lion hunts across Idaho and Wyoming, U.S. Attorney Josh Hurwit announced Wednesday.
A federal grand jury operating out of the U.S. District Court for the District of Idaho indicted the Idahoans — Chad Michael Kulow, Andrea May Major and LaVoy Linton Eborn — with violations of the Lacey Act, which prohibits wildlife trafficking.
The defendants are all licensed hunting guides working with an unidentified outfitter permitted to work in the Caribou-Targhee National Forest in southeast Idaho, Hurwit’s office said. The indictment says the three offered hunting guide services outside their employment with that outfitter, which is not allowed under Idaho state law.
Kulow and Major operated a social media page for the business Lethal Guides and Outfitters while Eborn issued contracts to clients under the name E-N Hunting Services. Neither business was licensed by the state of Idaho to outfit or guide hunts or permitted by the Forest Service, the indictment says.
