In the latest case, a sting operation orchestrated last year by the Utah Attorney General’s Office, Lemon is accused of helping a client shoot a cougar in a “canned” hunt staged in Millard County.
Wade Lemon is accused of ‘perpetrating fraud’ on Trump Jr. and another client in ‘canned’ big game hunts in Utah.
The charges in both cases, known as “wanton destruction of wildlife,” are third-degree felonies that carry potential prison sentences of up to 5 years each. Other possible consequences of a conviction for Lemon are a loss of hunting in privileges in Utah and other states and revocation of his outfitting license.
Willoughby and his boss Troy Rawlings have been assigned to prosecute Lemon as Utah’s special assistant attorneys general. In Lemon’s Millard County case, the client’s participation was allegedly limited to being transported by ATV to the spot where a cougar had been cornered in a tree and squeezing two rounds into the animal’s body.
The unnamed cooperating witness called Lemon to inform him that he was tracking a cougar and asked if he had a client who wanted to bag one, and Lemon responded that he could be there in a few hours with a hunter.
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