A 12-year-old Brevig Mission boy has reached a plea deal with state prosecutors in the 2012 killings of musk oxen.
KNOM (http://is.gd/Yu9Cxc) reports the boy and another boy have been charged in connection with the deaths of seven musk oxen. Authorities say the boys chased the animals with four-wheelers and shot them with rifles over several days.
The names of the boys have not been released because of their ages.
The boys were charged in January with multiple counts of wanton waste of big game.
In a plea deal reached Friday, the boy agreed to forfeit all equipment used in the killings. He also will have to pay $3,000 in restitution and will remain on probation for one year.
The other boys’s case remains open.
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Information from: KNOM-AM, http://www.knom.org
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