(Yuba-Sutter, CA) – The U.S. Department of Justice reports 27-year-old Carlos T. Ortiz of Live Oak has pled guilty to violating the Migratory Bird Act and sentenced to 3 years probation, a $1000 fine and a three year hunting ban “for organizing a ten person goose hunt near the Sutter National Wildlife Refuge in Sutter County.”

An attached photo shows Ortiz and nine others, whose faces are blocked out, standing in front of 258 snow geese & white fronted geese, that had just been shot.

Dozens of live geese can be seen in the background.