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Local hunter faces 41 criminal counts

A Minooka deer hunter is charged in a 41-count criminal complaint with multiple conservation violations, including illegally taking a 36-point whitetail buck in a 2009 poaching incident.

Christopher Gerald Kiernan, 45, of 205 Osage St., Minooka, was charged Friday, Oct. 28, in Grundy County Circuit Court with poaching on Material Service Corporation property at 3450 Southmor Road at Morris, and with taking a 36-point whitetail deer on Nov. 1, 2009.

The complaint also charges Kiernan with illegally taking several other deer at the Material Service site, unlawfully hunting in Grundy County between November 2009 until May 2011, illegally possessing the skull caps and antlers of several deer and having them mounted, and with entering the company's property without permission.

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