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ABALONE POACHER GETS 1 YEAR
Published on December 17, 1996
© 1996-
The Press Democrat
PAGE: B2
A Santa Barbara man was sentenced Monday to a year in the
Sonoma County Jail after being convicted of conspiring to
poach 46 abalone.
Lance Anthony Robles, 33, a commercial abalone
fisherman, also must pay $4,000 into a county fund set up to
restore abalone along the county coast, ruled Superior
Court Judge R. Bryan Jamar.
Jamar could have sentenced Robles to a maximum of three
years in state prison.
State park rangers arrested Robles and two other Santa
Barbara men in August for poaching the abalone from
Fort Ross Reef.
The other men, Timothy David Contreras, 27, and
Christopher Andrew Weighill, 34, who also is a licensed
commercial fisherman, earlier pleaded no contest to a
misdemeanor charge. As part of his sentencing, Contreras must
serve another 54 days in jail. Weighill had served enough time
in jail to be released on probation. Both men also must pay
$4,000 in restitution.
Robles had his fishing license revoked for life in
August by the state Fish and Game Commission for violations in
Los Angeles.
Keywords: FISHING CRIME SENTENCE
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