By Gary Meyer, TME

A Pine Mountain Club resident appeared before six PMCPOA board members on June 30. Two PMC Patrol employees testified while the PMCPOA General Manager and the board secretary were present for a hearing on accusations against him.

PMCPOA Patrol Officer James Overturf had issued a citation to the resident on May 27 for what he wrote was a violation on May 23 of Association Rule Section “7.03 (in part) The feeding of bears… is strictly prohibited.”

The resident asked Finn Myggen (former chair of PMCPOA Budget and Finance Committee) to accompany him to the hearing.

Myggen reported that he had asked Chairman Bill Lewis II twice to show the evidence against the accused (once prior to the hearing and again at the beginning of the hearing) and Lewis refused both times.

According to Myggen, after the two patrol officers testified that they had…(please see below to view full stories and photographs)

Photo captions:

A man Finn Myggen said looked like the accused man

The same man with what appears to be a bear cub behind him.

This photo was received by the resident, along with the citation, which stated that a video clearly shows him feeding a bear.

The ‘Description of Violation’ in the citation states that the resident being cited was “clearly seen feeding a bear’. For this to be true, there would need to be evidence not yet shown to the accused.

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