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3 YEARS POSSIBLE FOR ABALONE
POACHING
Published on December 31, 2002
© 2002-
The Press Democrat
BYLINE: Steve Hart
PAGE: B3
COLUMN: Around the Empire
A 24-year-old Cloverdale man could be sentenced to three
years in prison after he pleaded no contest to a charge of
conspiracy for illegally harvesting and selling abalone
taken from the Sonoma Coast.
Atticus Reynolds will be sentenced Jan. 30.
Two other Cloverdale men, Ryan Berny Demolski, 21, and
Lewis Evan Robledo Jr., 26, still face a trial in the case.
Reynolds entered the plea last week in Sonoma County
Superior Court.
State game wardens said they saw the three men take
more than 30 red abalone from the ocean off Salt Point
State Park on May 1 and May 2.
They later sold the abalone to two restaurants
in San Francisco's Chinatown, wardens said.
Sport divers can't take more than three abalone
per day or 24 per year, and it is illegal to sell
abalone taken north of San Francisco Bay.
At the time of his arrest, Reynolds was on probation
for poaching steelhead trout at the state fish hatchery at
Lake Sonoma's Warm Springs Dam in 2000. He and three others
were caught with eight steelhead that had returned to spawn at
the hatchery.
Wardens said they were selling the fish in Cloverdale.
-- Steve Hart Keywords: FISHING THEFT
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