FORT PIERRE - Restitution checks have been offered to the state Game, Fish and Parks Foundation and to other state agencies in two federal court cases.

U.S. Attorney Marty Jackley said one of the cases involved a Tripp County man, Kyle Moeller, 50, who was sentenced in December for violating federal laws after illegally harvesting wildlife through his hunting and outfitting operation.

In the other case, the Haakon County Weed Board, GF&P Foundation and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service benefited from a financial settlement made with a Midland couple, Jackley said.

He said Wilbert Ohlmann, 67, and Judith Ohlmann, 63, were accused of making false statements to the Federal Crop Insurance Corp. and the Farm Service Agency about preventive planting claims on more than 31,000 acres of spring wheat.

"I think these are good examples of good deterrent cases," Jackley said. "The one case that we dealt with, the Moeller case, that individual had to serve 45 days jail time, many other conditions on that as well as the financial hit that he took with respect to those actions."

The Ohlmanns have been put under supervision of the United States Probation Office.

Jackley made the presentations earlier this month at a GF&P Commission meeting in Fort Pierre.