A warden with the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources has entered a not guilty plea to charges he obstructed an investigation into illegal sturgeon caviar bartering. Thirty-six-year-old Ryan Koenigs made Monday’s court appearance virtually because the charge is a misdemeanor. He returns to court next month. Koenigs has entered another not guilty plea to a more serious theft charge in Winnebago County. He’s accused of taking eggs from storage and giving them to a processor. He’s scheduled to go on trial in that case in mid-June. Koenigs was accused of being one of several D-N-R employees who collected eggs from sturgeon spearers, saying they were for research projects, then having them processed for sale. He is accused of accepting about 20-thousand dollars’ worth of caviar by illegal bartering.
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