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SD man pleads guilty to felon in possession charge
• SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) -- A South Dakota man has pleaded guilty to being a convicted felon in possession of a firearm.
• U.S. Attorney Brendan Johnson announced that 52-year-old Jess Porras, of McLaughlin, pleaded guilty to the charge earlier in the week.
• Prosecutors say Porras was acting as a deer hunt guide on tribal land in December 2011 when he grabbed a gun from a hunter and shot a deer.
• Porras had been previously convicted of a felony in 1994.
• Porras faces a maximum sentence of 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine. Sentencing is set for April 29.
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SD man gets probation for park ranger assault
• RAPID CITY, S.D. (AP) -- A Rapid City man has been sentenced to probation for assaulting a park ranger.
• U.S. Attorney Brendan Johnson has announced that 25-year-old Cody Gallagher has been sentenced to two years of probation with four months of home confinement for assaulting the federal officer.
• Prosecutors say Gallagher assaulted the park ranger who was attempting to make Gallagher leave the Horsethief Lake Campground in July. Gallagher pleaded guilty to the charge in October.
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Dry conditions challenge SD pheasant hunters
DIRK LAMMERS,Associated Press
• SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) -- Pheasant hunting guides say dry conditions have made for a difficult season in the fields despite summer brood counts showing that bird numbers were up across the state.
• Steve Bublitz, a guide with Fair Chase Pheasants, said early-season hunts in the Huron area were challenging because the birds would escape into the dry, heavy weeds and the crunch from hunters' boots would give the pheasants a heads-up.
• "You'd come in one end and no matter what you do, the birds would hear you coming 200 miles away and flush wild," said Bublitz, who's been hunting birds for more than a half century. "So the hunting wasn't as good as I was expecting it to be. (Continued on page 17)
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