I can not believe this shit--Country music singer kills tame bear

[Strathos]

If you listen to country radio, please call them and tell them to stop playing Montgomery Gentry music. This is horrible and much worse than anything the Dixie Chicks could have said.



August 15, 2006, 9:45 pm]
"(AP) Country singer faces federal charges for killing bear"

DULUTH, Minn.

Country singer Troy Lee Gentry appeared in U.S. District Court in Duluth Tuesday, accused of killing a tame black bear and falsely claiming it was hunted in the wild.

Gentry, 39, of Franklin, Tenn., and Lee Marvin Greenly, 46, of Sandstone, are both indicted for conspiring to violate the Lacey Act.

Authorities accuse Gentry of purchasing the bear from Greenly, a wildlife photographer and hunting guide, then shooting it in an enclosed pen with a bow and arrow. He is then accused of arranging for the doctoring of a videotape of the "wild" kill.

Gentry and Greenly made their initial appearances Tuesday before...
...U.S. Magistrate Judge Raymond Erickson in connection with a sealed indictment returned by a federal grand jury in Minneapolis in July.

Gentry is a member of the country duo Montgomery Gentry.

Prosecutors say Gentry and Greenly tagged the dead bear, killed on Greenly's property in October 2004, with a Minnesota hunting license and registered the animal with the state Department of Natural Resources as a wild kill.

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