{"id":367917,"date":"2025-12-25T11:40:16","date_gmt":"2025-12-25T11:40:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/367917\/"},"modified":"2025-12-25T11:40:16","modified_gmt":"2025-12-25T11:40:16","slug":"sask-woman-who-was-trafficking-black-bear-paws-fined-over-12000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/367917\/","title":{"rendered":"Sask. woman who was trafficking black bear paws, fined over $12,000"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/873b327b-70ec-49a1-9680-15e25c2c8938.jpg\" class=\"object-fit-cover\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>(Ministry of Environment)<\/p>\n<p>By Nigel Maxwell<\/p>\n<p>Illegal hunting<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\tDec 23, 2025 | 11:29 AM\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>A woman from Maidstone and a family member have been fined over $21,000 for illegal hunting activities related to the trafficking of black bear paws and gall bladders.<\/p>\n<p>Appearing at Lloydminster Provincial Court, Weol Ran Lee pleaded guilty to trafficking in wildlife. She received a $7,000 fine and a five-year hunting suspension.<\/p>\n<p>Lee also pleaded guilty to unlawfully transporting wildlife parts between provinces after purchasing bear paws illegally in Saskatchewan and taking them into Alberta. <\/p>\n<p>For this offence, she was fined $5,000, prohibited from possessing bear parts for five years, and had any money seized in connection with the offence forfeited.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(Ministry of Environment) By Nigel Maxwell Illegal hunting Dec 23, 2025 | 11:29 AM A woman from Maidstone&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":367918,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[49,48,295,66],"class_list":{"0":"post-367917","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-environment","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-environment","11":"tag-science"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367917","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=367917"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367917\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/367918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=367917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=367917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=367917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}