Troopers get jail, fines – Cheboygan, MI – Cheboygan Daily Tribune

By Mike Fornes

Cheboygan Daily Tribune

Cheboygan, Mich. -

Two Michigan State Police Troopers from the Cheboygan Post went to jail Friday after being sentenced for poaching deer while on duty.

Jeff Hadley and Don Bolen will also pay hefty fines, lose their hunting privileges until 2013 and serve 100 hours of community service time apiece.

Cheboygan County 89th District Court Judge Maria Barton sentenced Bolen to two days in jail with credit for one day served. Hadley, who fired his own hunting rifle to shoot a buck Nov. 12 while on patrol off Mograin Road in Benton Township, received a four-day jail sentence with credit for one day served.

“I would like to apologize to the court and to my family,” Bolen said before sentence was passed. His attorney, Michael Hackett, described the poaching incident as “a life-altering event; a career-altering event.”

“You broke the law while on duty, in uniform and while in a police vehicle as you were being paid by Michigan taxpayers to enforce the law,” Barton told Bolen. “This case violates the public’s trust. It is important for the community to know that everyone is accountable.”

Hadley’s attorney, Joseph Kwiatkowski, pointed out his client’s military service and two lifesaving incidents involving Hadlley diving into water to rescue a victim and entering a burning building to save the life of a firefighter  Click link below for full stroy

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