Kasilof drift fisherman Roland Maw pleaded guilty in superior court for collecting six years of PFDs while he was claiming residency in another state.
Maw, a former director and current volunteer with the United Cook Inlet Drift Association, was charged on one misdemeanor in the place of the original 12 charges brought against him. He’ll pay a $500 fine, nearly $9,582 in restitution to the state and will have a criminal conviction on his record. He will no longer be allowed to collect PFDs.
“It would be nice to have this behind me and have this over so I can move on with my life and the state can move on with whatever it chooses to do,” he said at the hearing.Attorneys in Montana were first to charge Maw for buying resident hunting and fishing licenses there while he was also claiming residency in Alaska. In 2015, a Montana court barred Maw from hunting and fishing in the state for a year and a half and ordered him to pay a fine.
But attorneys for Maw and the state reached a plea deal, made official Friday, to replace all those charges with one count of unsworn falsification in the second degree.Lisa Kelley, an attorney from the state, said the restitution represents the entirety of PFDs that were erroneously paid and the difference in prices between resident and nonresident Fish and Game licenses.
Juneau Judge Amy Mead said she found the state’s penalties fit for the crime, given Maw’s lack of priors. And she said the fact that Maw will walk away with a criminal conviction deserves a lot of weight.
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