Canadian Man Sentenced to 30 Days for Importing Illegally-Harvested Moose Antlers and Hide

Bangor, Maine:  United States Attorney Halsey B. Frank announced that Daniel F. Dyer, 57, of Plaster Rock, New Brunswick, Canada was sentenced today in U.S. District Court by Judge Jon D. Levy to 30 days in prison for importing illegally-taken moose antlers and a moose hide. He was also fined $5,000.  He pled guilty on May 17, 2018.

According to court records, on September 28, 2013, Dyer, a Canadian outfitter and guide, arranged for Richard Eaton, a West Virginia resident, to unlawfully harvest a moose in New Brunswick using a license issued to a New Brunswick resident.  Dyer later brought the hide and antlers of the moose through Maine. Dyer delivered the hide to a taxidermist in Pennsylvania and the antlers to Eaton in West Virginia.  In 2014, Eaton was convicted in federal court of receiving the illegally-taken moose.

In imposing the sentence, Judge Levy found that Dyer had obstructed justice by instructing Eaton to falsely claim that another Canadian guide had shot the moose and said the cover-up was as bad as, or worse than, the crime itself.

The investigation was conducted by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the Wildlife Enforcement Division of Environment Canada (New Brunswick).