On Wednesday, Stoner, via his lawyer, admitted "that he had breached the provincial Wildlife Act. Marvin Stern said his client mistakenly believed he was qualified to participate," via Tamsyn Burgmann of the Canadian Press.
As a result, Stoner was banned from hunting for three years and ordered to pay $10,000.
According to CBC, Stoner was charged with two counts of knowingly making a false statement to obtain a hunting license in British Columbia, Canada, and he also faces counts of "hunting out of season, hunting without a license and unlawfully possessing dead wildlife."
Per Larry Pynn of the Vancouver Sun, charges were brought against the 30-year-old blueliner in September. They came two years after a photo surfaced showing Stoner holding up the head of a dead grizzly bear, according to Mike Halford of Pro Hockey Talk (articles contain graphic images).
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