Vernon bear activist gets 30-day jail term

by Jim Lockwood/The Star-Ledger

Tuesday December 18, 2007, 9:35 PM

source www.nj.com
In a plea bargain reached in Vernon Municipal Court, Kazemian, 50, pleaded guilty to two disorderly persons charges of resisting arrest and a summons of interfering with state Fish & Wildlife officials. In exchange, summonses alleging he poured urine in a bear trap to deter bruins, trespassed on a neighbor\’s property and harassed another neighbor were dismissed.

Kazemian was one of four animal-rights protesters convicted last year on charges of interfering with the 2005 bear hunt by encircling and harassing hunters on Dec. 7 in Wawayanda State Park in Vernon. Those convictions were affirmed this year in Superior Court in Newton and are now on appeal in the state Appellate Division.

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