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Hunters who killed livestock dogs ordered to pay $250,000

Published  March 11, 2016 10:45am PST
Associated Press

BEND, Ore. (AP) _ Two brothers convicted of killing livestock guardian dogs while hunting in the Ochocos have been ordered to pay the dogs' owner nearly $250,000.

The Bulletin of Bend reports (http://is.gd/rimCTK ) that a Crook County on Tuesday ordered Paul and Craig Johnson to pay the dogs' owner after a civil damages trial.

The brothers pleaded no contest to a single count each of misdemeanor animal abuse and were sentenced to probation and community service in October 2013. The brothers shot and killed three Great Pyrenees sheepdogs. They told a Crook County sheriff's deputy in 2012 that they believed they were wild dogs.

They have been ordered to pay owner Gordon Clark $7,500 for the replacement value of the dogs, $100,000 in emotional harm and $139,500 in punitive damages.