ALASKA -- Alaska State Troopers have cited a 28-year-old man from Oregon who they say ran over several bald eagles feeding on a roadway in Dutch Harbor on Sunday, killing two and injuring two others.
A jogger witnessed the act and reported it to Unalaska police around 9:30 p.m. A Ford truck had hit the eagles near the Aleutian city's landfill, said Megan Peters, troopers spokesperson.
"The eagles were feeding and the person in the truck plowed through them and kept going," she said.
Witness statements led troopers, who took control of the case, to identify Dennis Thompson as the driver of the truck.
Troopers cited Thompson for using a motorized vehicle to harass or molest game and accused him of "accelerating a Ford truck" through several bald eagles, killing two.
Why wasn't he charged with animal cruelty??
Peters said the injured eagles were not captured.
Thompson's arraignment is scheduled for June 30 in Unalaska District Court.
(Alaska Dispatch - June 11, 2015)
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