IN OHIO:
Harlan
Campbel, 68, of Jackson OH admitted that he and a friend, Paul Riegel
spread poisoned cracked corn on a wheat field northwest of Jackson on
Nov 15, 1999, killing 442 birds including mourning doves, Canada
geese, meadowlarks, horned larks, crows, killdeer, and red-winged
blackbirds. Both men had been charged and Riegel farmed the land
where the poison was spread, but Riegel died last year. Campbell was
fined $11,912, told to perform 100 hours of community service, and
placed on probation for 5 years.

IN ILLINOIS:
Strangely
enough, the Defiance Crescent-News also had a report from Breese IL
"It was like a scene from an Alfred Hitchcock movie: hundreds of dead
birds sprawled across JoAnn Thole's lawn. 'I've got 117 pounds of
dead birds-- I weighed them, ' Thole said as she opened her garage,
which she had made into a makeshift bird morgue. The European
starlings hadn't died of some mysterious disease. They were killed by
poison distributed by Agriculture Dept at the request of local
farmers, who said the birds had been eating cattle feed and causing
other problems. Kirk Gustad, director of the Agriculture Dept's
Wildlife Services unit in Springfield, said the agency received about
2 dozen requests from IL farmers to kill off the starlings. This
week, thousands of dead birds dotted the streets of Breese, a SW IL
town of 4,000. The birds have been seeking out trees to sleep in
after spending their days eating feed-- and the poisoned pellets-- at
nearby farms. There were so many dead birds last weekend that police
Chif Jim Hummert told residents to put the carcasses in containers at
the curb with their garbage. There are some subdivisions with so many
dead birds, and so much bird droppings that kids can't go out and
play, Hammel said.