diff --git a/src/main/java/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/checks/javadoc/AbstractJavadocCheck.java b/src/main/java/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/checks/javadoc/AbstractJavadocCheck.java
index e5d108982..9cb3f49c5 100755
--- a/src/main/java/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/checks/javadoc/AbstractJavadocCheck.java
+++ b/src/main/java/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/checks/javadoc/AbstractJavadocCheck.java
@@ -33,8 +33,6 @@ import org.antlr.v4.runtime.Token;
 import org.antlr.v4.runtime.misc.ParseCancellationException;
 import org.antlr.v4.runtime.tree.ParseTree;
 import org.antlr.v4.runtime.tree.TerminalNode;
-import org.apache.commons.logging.Log;
-import org.apache.commons.logging.LogFactory;
 
 import com.google.common.base.CaseFormat;
 import com.google.common.primitives.Ints;
@@ -52,7 +50,6 @@ import com.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle.utils.JavadocUtils;
  * @author Baratali Izmailov
  */
 public abstract class AbstractJavadocCheck extends Check {
-
     /**
      * Error message key for common javadoc errors.
      */
@@ -89,9 +86,6 @@ public abstract class AbstractJavadocCheck extends Check {
             }
         };
 
-    /** Logger. */
-    private static final Log LOG = LogFactory.getLog(AbstractJavadocCheck.class);
-
     /**
      * Custom error listener.
      */
@@ -234,7 +228,6 @@ public abstract class AbstractJavadocCheck extends Check {
             parseTree = parseJavadocAsParseTree(javadocComment);
         }
         catch (ParseCancellationException e) {
-            LOG.error("Syntax error occurs during javadoc parsing.", e);
             // If syntax error occurs then message is printed by error listener
             // and parser throws this runtime exception to stop parsing.
             // Just stop processing current Javadoc comment.