Charges detail extensive poaching ring in Washington, Oregon

[Judi Lynn]

18. Poaching Suspects Charged After Violent Videos Seized

Suspects involved in a massive poaching ring in southwestern Washington and north central Oregon are officially charged. 

Two of them are a father and son pair well-known in hunting circles.

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>Multiple videos seized

showed the suspects encouraging their dogs to tear bears apart after shooting them from tree tops.

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Joe Dills was investigated in 2007 and charged in 2008 for his participation in the prolific poaching group, the self-avowed "Kill 'Em All Boyz." According to his case file, Dills hunted beside Micky Gordon, a man who bragged about illegally killing bears among other wildlife and even lethally punished one his hound dogs by wrapping an electrical collar to his testicles, shocking him so severely the dog later died of his injuries.

Eddy Dills, Joe Dills' dad, hunted on nearly two-dozen state issued permits in 2011 to kill bears on timber farms, as part of the WDFW Bear Timber Depredation Management (BTDM) program. It's a program that depends on hunter ethics, entrusted behind locked gates on private land to follow the rules.

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However, in >a year-long investigation

, KING 5 learned BTDM hunters who are caught breaking the rules are rarely held accountable by the state due to fractured and inconsistent policy driven by pressure from big timber. Hunters involved with the program told KING 5 there is often pressure to kill whatever bears are in the area rather than targeting problem animals.

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"Kill 'Em All Boyz."

Some images of some of the "Boyz" and their handiwork:

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