Judge sends man to prison for shooting bear on reservation
ST. PAUL, Minn. – A federal judge has sentenced a Brainerd man to 15 months in prison for killing and then beheading a 700-pound black bear on the Red Lake Indian Reservation. U.S. District Judge Susan Richard Nelson sentenced 39-year-old James Stimac on Wednesday. According to prosecutors, Stimac used a compound bow to shoot the bear on the reservation in northern…