01-11-2019 23:05 via kvoa.com

The Latest: Man gets probation for killing whooping crane

The Latest on a man sentenced for killing a whooping crane (all times local):
5 p.m.
A Louisiana man has been sentenced to probation for killing one of the state’s oldest whooping cranes.
In a hearing Friday before U.S. Magistrate Judge Carol B. Whitehurst, Gilvin P. Aucoin Jr. changed his plea to guilty for a misdemeanor violation of the International Migratory Bird Treaty Act. He shot a whooping crane in July 2018 in Evangeline Parish, Louisiana.
Whitehurst sentenced Aucoin to two years&
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