PCR Exhibits - Alaska State of Corruption

Both men have pleaded not guilty to the charges against them, prosecutor Scot Leaders said
Tuesday. Haeg could not be reached for comment. Zellers declined to talk about the case when
reached at his home in Eagle River.
Charging documents say both men admitted to troopers they had killed or wounded nine wolves
from their airplane outside the legal hunt zone in March. In all of the cases, Haeg flew the
airplane while Zellers shot at the wolves with a shotgun.
The wolves were fired upon as they ran along riverbanks, spread out in trees or stood along a
ridge-line near a moose kill, charges say. In some cases, Zellers shot at multiple wolves but
missed. In other cases he wounded the animals and had to finish them off when he landed.
Troopers have seized the plane used by the two men. It could be forfeited to the state
permanently if they are convicted.
According to airplane ownership records, the aircraft is owned by Haeg.
Prosecutors say Haeg told troopers he lied to the state about where the wolves were killed
"because he wanted to be known as a successful participant in the aerial wolf hunt," the court
documents say.
Wildlife enforcement trooper Brett Gibbens, who pieced together the case, could not be reached
Tuesday. But his supervisor, Lt. Steve Arlow, deputy commander of the Alaska Bureau of
Wildlife Enforcement, wrote in the troopers' fall newsletter that Gibbens, a trapper, had a great
deal of personal knowledge of the wolf packs around McGrath -- about their pack sizes and
coloring.
Gibbens figured out pretty quickly that something was amiss, Arlow wrote. "The area the permit
holders (claimed) to be involved in ... and the color phases of wolves they were harvesting did
not add up in his mind," Arlow wrote.
Gibbens interviewed the hunters about the type of ammunition they were using and the areas
they were working in.
On March 26, while flying in his personal aircraft on his day off, Gibbens found suspicious
airplane ski tracks in the snow along with wolf footprints. He followed the wolf tracks over the
next few days, which eventually led him to some of the wolf-kill sites. The same airplane ski
tracks were found at the sites, charges say.
At one site, "Running wolf tracks ended abruptly with blood and wolf hair in the track, and there
were airplane ski tracks and human foot tracks where someone had loaded the wolf into the
airplane and taken off again," according to the charges.
"Because of (trooper) Gibbens' expertise in the area of wolf hunting from aircraft and aircraft ski
track patterns in snow, he could read the crime scene like a good novel," Arlow wrote.
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