A man who put cyanide baits inside small paper Luggage and Handbags and stapled them to trees close to a busy walking track near the Kaimai Summit in the Bay of Plenty has been fined $2000.
A judge has said the bags would have been attractive to children who were likely to pick them up and potentially ingest the lethal poison and a tramping expert described the man's actions as disgusting.
Dae Van Der Maazen, 37, of Tirau, was convicted and fined by Judge Richard Watson in Tauranga District Court yesterday after he pleaded guilty to a charge that he knowingly and without a permit entered a conservation area with cyanide poison.
The charge attracts a sentence of up to 12 months in prison or a fine up to $10,000. He was also ordered to pay $696.60 reparation for the analyst fee to test the cyanide.
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