Dallas PA – Multiple charges have been filed against Mark Nicholas Jarema, 37, Leesburg, NJ, for dozens of criminal and game code violations. Jarema was extradited on Monday, Jan. 28, from New Jersey Mid-State Correctional Facility, Wrightsville, NJ, by Wayne County Game Commission Wildlife Conservation Officer (WCO) Frank Dooley, with assistance from the Wayne County District Attorney’s Office and Pennsylvania State Police officers from the Honesdale barracks. Jarema was arraigned in Pennsylvania before Magisterial District Judge Ronald Edwards in Honesdale. Jarema’s bail was set at $50,000 and he was remanded to the Wayne County Prison.

Austin Texas – An Upshur County grand jury has returned multiple felony indictments, including two first degree counts of aggravated assault on a police officer, naming a father and son accused of holding a state game warden at gunpoint last October.
All the indictments stem from an Oct. 6 incident in which Texas Parks and Wildlife Department Game Warden Shane Bailey was disarmed and detained by two armed men while the officer was making a routine check for hunting law violations on private property in Upshur County.

LINCOLN, Neb. – Jacob Hueftle, 22, of Broken Bow, pled guilty in federal court on April 4 to two counts of interstate transportation of illegally killed deer. Following an investigation in which Hueftle and nine others committed scores of game violations, he made a plea agreement and paid a $10,000 fine and forfeited two firearms. Hueftle also was given five years federal probation, which bans him from hunting, fishing or trapping, or being in the company of anyone hunting, fishing or trapping in the United States. Hueftle and nine others – five from Nebraska and two each from Kansas and Texas – paid a total of $28,796 in fines and restitution in state and federal courts stemming from this investigation, which discovered violations that spanned 1½ years. All of the violations took place in Kansas and Nebraska.

Pennsylvania Game Commission officials today announced Jay Alan Parker, 30, of Union City, Erie County, pled guilty to unlawfully killing a black bear on Dec. 5.

Parker was taken into custody by Game Commission Wildlife Conservation Officer (WCO) Darin Clark and WCO Cadet Michael Papinchak after the bear was discovered in a pickup truck belonging to Donald William Brown III, 21, of Wattsburg, Erie County.