Rocker Ted Nugent to expected to plead guilty in illegal bear hunting case

ANCHORAGE, Alaska – Rocker and gun rights advocate Ted Nugent was expected to plead guilty Tuesday to transporting a black bear he illegally killed in Alaska.

A plea agreement with federal prosecutors signed by Nugent says he illegally shot and killed the bear in May 2009 after wounding another bear in a bow hunt. The bow incident counted toward a state seasonal limit of one bear.

Nugent didn’t know he was breaking the law, said his attorney, Wayne Anthony Ross.

The agreement, filed in U.S. District Court last week, says the hunt was filmed for Nugent’s Outdoor Channel television show “Spirit of the Wild.”

Nugent has agreed to pay a $10,000 fine, according to the document, which says he also agreed to a two-year probation, including a special condition that he not hunt or fish in Alaska or Forest Service properties for one year. He also agreed to create a public service announcement that would be broadcast on his show every second week for one year.

A plea agreement would have to be approved by a judge.

Nugent briefly drew the attention of the Secret Service last week after he rallied support for Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney and said of the Obama administration: “We need to ride into that battlefield and chop their heads off in November.” His comments were made during a National Rifle Association meeting.

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