'Tiger King' star Bhagavan “Doc” Antle felt the bite of a 10-count indictment from a South Carolina grand jury for alleged wildlife trafficking and money laundering, prosecutors announced Thursday.
Antle, 62, who owns the wildlife tropical preserve Myrtle Beach Safari, faces up to 20 years behind bars for the money laundering charges and five for the wildlife trafficking charges, according to the Justice Department.“Kudos to the U.S. Department of Justice and the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service for doing what the U.S. Department of Agriculture has refused to do for years: crack down on ‘Doc’ Antle’s endangered-animal exploitation outfit,” PETA said in a statement.
Bybee, Sammut, and Clay are accused of participating in the wildlife trafficking operations with Antle in violation of the Lacey Act and the Endangered Species Act. Wildlife such as cheetahs, lemurs, and a chimpanzee were allegedly trafficked in those operations. The trio is also accused of making false statements about that activity to law enforcement.
Antle is accused of conspiring with Sawyer to launder $505,000 from an alleged"operation to smuggle illegal immigrants across the Mexican border into the United States." Both Antle and Saywer wrote checks with that money falsely claiming to be remitted for construction work at Myrtle Beach Safari, according to the Justice Department. This system was used as a guise for a"legitimate income," but Antle and Sawyer reaped a 15% fee on the money sent, prosecutors alleged.
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