Columbus doctor fined $900,000 in largest bird mount trafficking case

A Columbus doctor and a Eufaula man have been sentenced in the largest bird mount trafficking cases, the U.S. Department of Justice announced .

The DOJ said Dr. John Waldrop of Cataula was ordered to pay a $900,000 fine and serve three years of probation. The fine is one of the largest for an Endangered Species Act case, according to the DOJ.

Toney Jones, of Eufaula, Alabama, was sentenced to six months of probation, the DOJ said…

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