Country music star Troy Lee Gentry charged with killing bear

[drama_queen]

CHICAGO (Reuters) - Troy Lee Gentry, half of the country music duo Montgomery Gentry, has been charged with killing a tame bear and then making it look as if it was a hunting trophy, authorities said on Wednesday.

A top country act since the late 1990s with such hits as "Good Clean Fun," Gentry, 39, was arraigned in federal court this week on a charge of conspiracy to falsely label an animal.

The charge carries a maximum penalty of five years in prison and a $20,000 fine.

According to an indictment unsealed this week, in October 2004 Gentry paid $4,650 to shoot the "trophy-caliber" bear named "Cubby" at the Minnesota Wildlife Connection in northern Minnesota, which advertises itself as a place where animals can be photographed in the wild.

After using a bow and arrow to kill the animal inside its pen, Gentry and the owner of the preserve tagged the bear and registered it with the state as if it had been killed in the wild. A videotape was edited to make it appear that Gentry had hunted down the bear.

Attempts to reach Gentry, who was freed on bond, were unsuccessful.

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[SammysMom]

OH MY GOSH!!! I dont even know what to say. Bastard. Loser. Big fukin' bastard loser. He should be put in a pen and shot with a bow and arrow. ASS PRICK!!!

[Delphinium]

Somebody call PETA. This guy needs his clock cleaned.

[ourmaninBusan]

I thought you had to kill a bear
before they'd let you be a country singer.

[Grimmlok]

He shot it in its pen? A tame bear?

..... I think this man just castrated himself. What a retard.

[KrisNine]

I don't even know what to say! I can't understand someone wanting to do something like this...the reasoning they put behind it? The sport involved??? Shooting a tame bear, name Cubby for crying out loud, in his pen?? WTF?? With a bow and arrow?? This bear probably walked right up to the guy! What a shitbag!

[hollyweird]

Makes you wonder if the owner of the preserve does this alot, too. Let people shoot tame bears and tag them as if shot in the wild. Anything to make a buck.

[Luna]

@3$#@!%^&@*7*@!
Fucking mount his head! I swear people that can do shit like that are SICK and should die long suffering deaths!

[lavi]

Somebody call PETA. This guy needs his clock cleaned.

PETA wouldn't do anything to this guy as he might hurt them. They only pick on people who won't fight them like Paris and J-Lo. Yet, 50 Cent wears fur all the time and PETA keeps it's mouth shut. I wonder why?

[MrP!nk]

Animal cruelty should be against the law.

[SammysMom]

OTS-Damn that is one nasty looking picture MrPink. Scared me

[Grimmlok]

You know, if you want to hunt a bear then it should be illegal to do it with anything othr than a spear, a bow and arrow, a bolo, a boomerang or whatever else you had to fashion from the natural elements around you.

THAT is hunting. Not shooting a tame, penned up bear with something akin to a lightning bolt from God. Where's the sport?

[pacific breeze]

There are all kinds of "sport" hunting ranches in the U.S. like this. Texas is notorious for them, and ol Dubya has been instrumental in keeping them open. They also exist other places in the world -- Spain and Africa in particular -- but this kind of thing happens every day so that grown men can kill tame animals. Sometimes they let them out of their pens but it's still no contest, is it?

Just because there is preservation or conservation attached to a name doesn't mean diddley. Conservation officers here in BC kill more bears than all the hunters put together and most of the killings are unnecessary. I speak from experience in these matters.

[moushi]

what an asshole, poor cubby =( i feel so bad for cubby

[asha22]

What a jerk.