BY ROBERT PATRICK
ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH
04/03/2010
ST. LOUIS — A man from rural Illinois has been indicted on two federal animal cruelty charges that claim he possessed and sold DVDs of himself hitting, maiming and killing deer with his vehicle.
The indictment accuses Jarrod Lee Hayn of selling a copy of the video on Nov. 12, 2009, and possessing multiple copies of the DVD, which is called "The Deer Commander — Sudden Impact," between April 15 and Nov. 18, 2009.
Hayn, 38, of Kampsville, in Calhoun County, was indicted on March 11 in federal court in St. Louis on two charges: possession and sale of depictions of animal cruelty with the intent to place them in interstate commerce.
The indictment was sealed until Hayn's arrest this week.
A person who answered Hayn's telephone Friday said, "I'm sure he doesn't have any comments."
According to hunting and outdoor websites that were critical of Hayn's own website, he had bragged of having hit hundreds of deer with a specially-armored pickup or car, or both. He also reportedly said on the website that he is saving human lives by reducing the likelihood of other deer-vehicle collisions.
"There has to be something illegal about it and I think he gives us rednecks a bad name," wrote one poster on HankFans.com. Another, on Kentuckyhunting.net, called Hayn's website content, "some of the sickest stuff I have ever seen on the net."
Another poster, who claimed to know Hayn, defended him, saying that deer were overrunning the county, decimating agriculture and endangering motorists.
Hayn's website referred to in the postings was not working Friday.
Tim Schweizer, a spokesman for the Illinois Department of Natural Resources, said the agency's conservation police worked with federal authorities on the case. "We heard from a number of hunters, both from Illinois and around the country" who had seen the video and complained, he said.
From: http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/stories.nsf/laworder/story/6E831C99B9E9EE1C862576FA0003618C?OpenDocument
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