Conservation officers charged two hunters from the Lower Mainland last week near Princeton.

RCMP received a complaint Thursday of illegal hunting on Black Mine Road, according to RCMP Corporal Chad Parsons.

鈥淲e attended and found two males from the Lower Mainland had shot a deer in a no-shooting area and on private property,鈥� he said. The deer was seized and donated to a First Nations community, and the men were charged under the Wildlife Act with illegal harvest of wildlife and discharging a fire arm in a no-shooting area.

Parsons said the combined fines totalled about $1,000.

鈥淭hey were remorseful,鈥� he said. 鈥淭hey said they saw the deer and panicked. It was actually shot within a couple of hundred metres from a residence so it鈥檚 fortunate that only the deer was injured.鈥�

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