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                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: FRIDAY, January 29, 1993                   TAG: 9301290142
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: B3   EDITION: NEW RIVER VALLEY 
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CHARGE OF ATTEMPTING TO TRAP BEAR DISMISSED

A Buena Vista man has been found not guilty of attempting to illegally trap a bear.

Lonnie Lee Beverley was charged in September with attempting to take a bear by illegal methods, a misdemeanor, after state game officials staked out a site with meat hanging from a tree with a snare underneath it.

Beverley denied knowledge of anything illegal at the time, and a Nelson County judge recently dismissed the charge after a hearing.

At the time of the incident, hunters were allowed to bait and chase bear, but not to kill them.

- Staff report

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