Cleveland Police said three men had been caught hare coursing on private farmland in the Cleveland area with the help of a police drone operator
"Poachers do not come to catch game to take for the pot. It is a sport to them. It is a killing machine."
Michael Chaulk and William Smith were also handed court costs, disqualified from driving and a deprivation order for all four dogs at Lincolnshire Magistrates' Court
Four Cambridgeshire men have been fined and given suspended jail terms following successful police prosecution