NRP Blotter

Maryland Natural Resources Police officers charged a Frederick County man with a hunting violation and a Washington County man with illegal dumping.

Frederick County

A Knoxville man injured in a tree stand accident earlier this month has been charged with hunting violations by NRP.

Patrick Wade Knight, 50, was charged with hunting on private land without written permission and archery hunting without a bow stamp.

Knight suffered back and neck injuries on Sept. 12 when he fell 22 feet from his tree stand off Monocacy Bottom Road. It was the first reported accident of Maryland’s hunting season.

Frederick County Fire and Rescue and the Carroll Manor Fire Co. brought the injured hunter down the Monocacy River in an airboat to the Monocacy Natural Resource Management Area boat ramp. From there, Knight was taken to Suburban Hospital in Montgomery County for treatment.

Knight is scheduled to appear in Frederick District Court of Dec. 3. If found guilty, he faces a maximum fine of $1,500.

Washington County

A Hagerstown man was charged on Saturday with illegal dumping after an NRP officer saw him pulling away from a vacant building and a pile of concrete rubble.

Sherman Lee Lynn Jr., 47, was stopped when the officer noticed the debris at the building near Commonwealth Avenue and Willow Circle matched the remaining concrete on the trailer.

Lynn acknowledged that the rubble was from a foundation he had been hired to break up and haul away.

The officer arrested Lynn and charged him with illegal dumping and operating a trailer without tail lamps. Lynn was released on personal recognizance by a Washington County court commissioner.