Sheriff David Ray of Claiborne County was recently cited for shooting a deer without a license on the Claiborne County fairgrounds (shown above).
Where was the deer? And where did Sheriff Ray allegedly park, get his gun, get out of the car, and take the shot? And what about his friend who also nailed a deer at the fairgrounds?
The Claiborne County Fairgrounds is located on Straight Creek Road and is shown above in pictures taken from various angles. Click on each picture to enlarge.
A large part of the fairgrounds is fenced in, and currently the entrance gate off of Straight Creek Road is closed. The gate can be seen in the distance in one of the pictures along with houses that are nearby.
On one side of the road, you have an industry, the fairgrounds, and then housing.
On the other side of the road are the Claiborne County Justice Center and Powell Valley Electric.
The Sheriff first took the Fifth Amendment when questioned about the incident. Then he got a lawyer, admitted to shooting the deer, and said that he didn't have a hunting license because he usually hunted on his own land where a license isn't required.
OK---then that would mean that the Sheriff KNEW that a license IS required to hunt on land that you don't own and he KNEW from the very start that he had broken the law.
After shooting the deer, Sheriff Ray had a friend take the deer to be tagged. Why? Because he KNEW that he had broken the law and that he couldn't take the deer in. Solution: Ask someone who has a hunting license to lie and claim the deer as his own so Ray, the illegal hunter, could get away with breaking the law.
When all this was exposed, the Sheriff explained that he shot the deer as part of his service to the county because he was going to use the deer to "feed the inmates." Neat. The Sheriff took an illegal pot-shot on public property, had a friend to lie and help cover it up by having the friend take the deer to be tagged, and it was all part of his glorious service to Claiborne County!
[Sheriff Ray was assigned to community service at some undisclosed location in Hamblen County as part of a pre-trial diversion agreement that he signed in September 2008 after he was indicted on charges of statutory rape and rape by an authority figure.
Apparently, a decision has not been made as to whether this latest incident will result in revocation of the pre-trial diversion agreement signed in the prior case.]
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