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    Default Remember the duck hunting incident in Dare Co.

    This happened back in Dec. 17, guy threatened and assaulted 4 hunters on two separate occasions.


    A Dare County man was sentenced last week to seven days in jail and fined more than $2,500 after pleading guilty to 10 misdemeanors relating to two incidents over a period of 11 days last December in which he confronted and threatened four hunters in a lake in the Alligator River National Wildlife Refuge in Hyde County.

    Jarrod Thomas Umphlett of Manns Harbor also had two 45-day jail sentences suspended, was given an 18-month probation, lost his hunting license for two years, was ordered to write a letter of apology to all four hunters and undergo a psychological evaluation. He had two felony assault charges dismissed as part of a plea agreement,

    Umphlett pled guilty to eight misdemeanor charges — communicating threats, simple assault, injury to personal property, unlawful harassment of persons taking wildlife and operating a boat in a reckless manner — related to an incident on the afternoon of Dec. 16, 2017, when he was alleged to have rammed his boat into a boat in which Clark Purvis of Roanoke Rapids and Richard Edwards of Wilmington were riding, scouting for ducks, in Swan Creek Lake in Hyde County. According to the arrest report, Umphlett threatened Purvis and Edwards, boarded their boat, punched Edwards twice, tried to remove the outboard motor from the boat’s transom and throw it overboard and repeatedly yelled at them using racial epithets.

    Purvis runs Roanoke River Waterfowl and is a cousin of Gov. Roy Cooper. Edwards is a member of the N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission.

    Those eight charges carried the 7-day jail term and fines, restitution and court costs totaling $2,030, plus a 45-day suspended sentence, suspension of Umphlett’s hunting license for two years and a prohibition against participating in any hunting-related activities for two years.

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    He also pled guilty to four misdemeanor charges of communicating threats and unlawful harassment of persons taking wildlife relating to a Dec. 27, 2017, incident in which he was alleged to have threatened and harassed Larry Gammon of Plymouth and his teen-aged son, Wesley Cole Gammon, for hunting in the same lake where he confronted Purvis and Edwards. He was fined $500.

    Umphlett’s father, Wayne Thomas Umphlett of Manns Harbor, pled guilty of one charge of unlawful harassment of persons taking wildlife, received a prayer for judgement continued and ordered to pay $180 in court costs. He was in the boat with his son when the Dec. 27 incident took place.

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    That seems like an awfully light sentencing.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Moonlight Hunter View Post
    That seems like an awfully light sentencing.
    Yep, way too lenient.

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    Racial epithets? What'd he do, call em a redneck?

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    I remember that. Think I recall someone saying he had $$$. Must have for that slap on the wrist.

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    I don't know how those hunters showed restraint with that jackass. I'm impressed that they didn't engage, it sounds like, and that was probably the best response. I can't imagine how I'd have reacted.

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    It would have been hard not to have shot that bastard if he boarded my boat under the circumstances and started punching my hunting partner.

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    I think his family owns a big marina in Manns Harbour.

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    Quote Originally Posted by scatter shot View Post
    It would have been hard not to have shot that bastard if he boarded my boat under the circumstances and started punching my hunting partner.
    At the very least he’d have gotten a boat paddle upside his head.....


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    I seen a HELL of a lot more go on in the swamp back bout 38/yrs ago. Just sayin, A Swamp in SC that is.
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    He's damn lucky he made it off the lake alive that day; that sentence is a freaking joke.
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    Quote Originally Posted by FEETDOWN View Post
    At the very least he’d have gotten a boat paddle upside his head.....


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    ^^^trurth being told right there

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    Rocketman woulda took care of that issue quick!

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    That sentence will not be a deterrent. He will do it again.... And again. Either he will be more violent next time or his victims will. It will not end pretty.
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    He will bow up at the wrong person one day and will tote an ass whippin or bullet.
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    They probably deserved it

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    Apparently during sentencing the judge told him he was lucky he didn't get shot.
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