AUGUSTA (AP) – A logger from Van Buren has been ordered to pay more than $10,000 in fines and restitution for illegally harvesting timber from another person’s wood lot.
Gabriel Rioux, 43, was harvesting trees on land he owned in Grand Isle, but crossed onto neighboring land that he didn’t own, according to Jim Downie of the Maine Forest Service.
An investigation later determined that Rioux cut 290 trees on his neighbor’s property, Downie said.
Rioux pleaded guilty in Caribou District Court to a charge of unlawful cutting of trees. He was ordered to pay a $6,000 fine, and restitution of $4,474 to the other landowner.
AP-ES-04-16-04 1545EDT
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