Overview

• Jennings pleaded guilty July 23 to two counts of illegally taking white-tailed deer in interstate commerce after admitting he killed two antlered bucks in Kansas in November 2022 for his show
• A federal judge sentenced him to five years of probation, ordered $15,000 in restitution, a $10,000 fine and the forfeiture of the illegally taken antlers
• He received a lifetime ban on hunting and fishing in Kansas and is barred during his probation from guiding, hunting, trapping or fishing in eight other states including Nebraska, Missouri and Oklahoma
• Investigators found that he killed a deer near Florence without proper tags, fraudulently registered the kill in Oklahoma and then took a second deer near WaKeeney, breaching Kansas’s one-antlered buck limit
• The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks led the multistate probe with assistance from the U.S. Secret Service and wildlife agencies in Oklahoma, Georgia and Alabama