Two Alabama citizens were recently convicted for violating wildlife laws.

Dusty Casselman, 37, of Georgiana, Alabama, was convicted in a Butler County district court on September 22, 2009, for illegally transporting and selling feral swine, hunting on the lands of another without permission, hunting without a license and failure to wear hunter orange.

Investigations began on Casselman after officers received complaints about Casselman’s illegal hunting activities. Casselman was videotaped entering private land without a permit to hunt where he was trapping feral hogs to sell for release onto hunting grounds.

Judge McDonald Russell ordered Casselman to pay $3,244 in fines and court costs. Casselman also received a 180 day suspended jail sentence, one year of unsupervised probation and a two-year suspension of his hunting privileges.

In an unrelated case, June Woodruff, 52, of Greenville was charged with illegally selling venison from her processing facilities. Woodruff’s customers would order various cuts of venison similar to a grocery store butcher.

The sale or purchase of game animals, or parts thereof, including the meat, is prohibited in Alabama.

Woodruff pleaded guilty to two counts of selling game animals on June 23, 2009, and was ordered to pay $678 by Judge Russell.