A Billings federal court on Oct. 20 fined Montana resident John Lewton $20,000 and placed him on one year of probation after he pleaded guilty to a Lacey Act wildlife trafficking violation. During an October 2019 guided hunt on Montana public land, his client took a large wild bighorn sheep whose testicles Lewton later sold to an alternative livestock ranch in Vaughn, contrary to state wildlife and ranch rules. Probation bars him from commercial hunting, fishing, trapping, or outfitting and from joining others in those paid field activities, amid risks of disease to native sheep.