Man fined for illegally trafficking snowshoe hares from Maine to Massachusetts

PORTLAND, Maine () – A Massachusetts man was sentenced Wednesday for illegally transporting wild snowshoe hares from Maine to Massachusetts. Jon Ri...

March 8, 2023
7:36 AM

PORTLAND, Maine () – A Massachusetts man was sentenced Wednesday for illegally transporting wild snowshoe hares from Maine to Massachusetts. Jon Rioux , 36, of Attleboro must serve one year of probation and pay a fine of $10,000. Rioux must also pay $1,843 in restitution to the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife. Investigators discovered in January 2021 that Rioux was soliciting residents in Maine to trap snowshoe hares. Rioux illegally purchased hares on four different occasions and took them back to Massachusetts for Beagle training and field trials.

Nick Degray