The 22-year-old has been charged with multiple offenses, including hunting without a license and hunting with an illegal weapon.
Matthew Ligus, 22, was charged after a hiker reportedly discovered three of the bear cubs dead while visiting the park, according to. New Jersey Fish and Wildlife Conservation officers reportedly found the fourth cub nearby when they responded to the hiker's report.
CBS News contacted the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection for confirmation and additional comments and is awaiting a response. As authorities investigated the incidents, they charged Ligus, a Ringwood resident, for hunting with a firearm without a license, hunting with an illegal weapon and ammunition, and hunting during a closed season, among other crimes, CBS New York reported. State wildlife officials have not released information about how the bears were killed.
The four cubs were killed as New Jersey backtracks on its short-lived bear hunting ban, which took effect last year and outlawed hunting the animals on state property. Although implementing the ban was a pillar of Gov. Phil Murphy's campaign during his first run for office in 2018, he signed off on the state Fish and Game Council's vote to reinstate bear hunting permissions this year, in response to what he called a"growing black bear population" in New Jersey.
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