ANCHORAGE – A Wasilla big game guide and two others are facing charges for violating Alaska game laws.
Richard A. Kinmon, Sr., owner of Wasilla-based Alaska Trophy Hunters, was charged Tuesday with 30 counts, according to a statement from Beth Ipsen, Alaska State Troopers spokeswoman.
Kinmon, 62, was a licensed Alaska Department of Fish and Game vendor from 2008 to 2013. An investigation, prompted by a complaint in 2012 from a former client, found Kinmon sold big game tags to four clients in hunting camp after they had made kills, according to troopers.
He also guided a client for caribou without proper certification, baited a bear with a moose carcass he moved from the kill site with an off-road vehicle, allowed his assistant guide — 23-year-old Colin S. Marquiss — to harvest a moose while with clients and helped a client take a “sub-legal” moose and botch public records, the statement said.
Marquiss is charged with three counts of illegally guiding and hunting a big game animal with clients present, troopers said. Joseph C. Hahn, 24, of Pittsburg, Penn., faces four counts for taking a brown/grizzly bear without a valid non-resident tag, illegal possession of game and doctoring public records.
Arraignments are pending in the Delta Junction District Court. Some of the charges carry a maximum penalty of up to a year in jail and thousands of dollars worth of fines.