Five years after the true documentary “Tiger King” was a country that was closed by Covid-19 final legal problems For one of his main characters, Carolina will be resolved in a courtroom in South Carolina on Tuesday.
Bhagavan “Doc” Antle is exposed to up to 10 years in prison for trade with exotic animals and money laundering afterwards guilty In November 2023.
This is exactly what the public prosecutor’s office is asking for, and all arguments for the expression of the lawyers of Antle before the hearing on Tuesday morning before the Federal Court in Charleston in Charleston.
Three more, who were guilty of his investigation, received either a probation or a four -month prison sentence.
Antles judgment is the last chapter of Tigerking saga. The Netflix In March 2020, the series made up for the highlight of Covid-19 restrictions.
The show focused on dealers and conservationists from Big Cats and focused on disputes between Joe Exotic, a collector and private zooeeper from Oklahoma, and Carole Baskin, who operated large cat rescues in Florida.
Exotic, whose real name Joseph is Maldonado Passage, serves a 21-year-old for 21 years Federal prison sentence For the attempt to set two different men to kill Baskin.
Antle, who owns a private zoo called Myrtle Beach Safari, appeared in the first season of the documentary and was the star of the third season.
Antle’s zoo was known to calculate hundreds or thousands of dollars to have people stroking and keep animal babies such as lions, tigers and monkeys that were so young that they were still fed bottles. Customers can take photos or videos. Antle sometimes went on tours with an elephant.
According to his website, Myrtle Beach Safari only remains open by reservation. Antle has remained against the deposit since his arrest in June 2022.
The federal blaming of Antle was raised according to the Tiger King series.
Prosecutors said he had cheetahs, lions, tigers and chimpanzees without the correct documents. And they said in a separate program, antle washing more than 500,000 US dollars that an informant was informed of him that people are illegally brought to the USA.
Antle was used to having large amounts of money that he could move quickly, the investigators said.
The FBI listened to Antle’s phone calls with the informant when he explained that a baby Schimpanen could easily cost $ 200,000. Private zooepers can request hundreds of dollars for photos with comprehensive young primates or other animals, but the winning window is only open for a few years before the growing animals can no longer be treated safely.
“I had to get a monkey, but people will not do a check. They only take cash. So what do you do?” According to a copy of the telephone call, Antle said in court files.
Two employees from Antle have already been convicted of their role in his plans.
Meredith Bybee received a probation for a year because he had sold a chimpanzee, while Andrew “Omar” Sawyer, who said that the public prosecutor’s office helped, received two years of probation.
Jason Clay, a private zoo owner in Texas, guilty of having illegally sold a primate, and was sentenced to four months in prison, while the indictment against Charles Sammlsut, owner of California Ranch, was dropped.
Antle was too condemned in 2023 In a court in Virginia with four charges of wildlife trade, the sale of lions and two years in prison was convicted “after five years of good behavior”. A Court of Appeal Two of the convictions canceled and decided that the Law of Virginia prohibits the sale of endangered species, but not their purchase.
Antle was not found guilty of the same legal proceedings in Virginia.
