‘Tiger King’ Celebrity Doc Antle Charged With Natural world Trafficking, Animal Cruelty

Bhagavan “Doc” Antle, one amongst the celebrities of the hit Netflix docuseries “Tiger King,” has been indicted on 15 prices, including two felony counts of natural world trafficking and conspiracy to natural world visitors, the Virginia criminal official weird and wonderful announced Friday.

As well to to the two felony prices, Antle also faces 13 misdemeanor prices including 9 counts of animal cruelty.

A self-described conservationist, Antle is the owner of the Myrtle Seaside Safari in South Carolina. The assert of work of Approved official General Mark Herring mentioned the indictments came after a months-long investigation into illegal lion cub trafficking, which culminated in a raid of Antle’s park attend in December. Two of his daughters, Tawny Antle and Tilakam Watterson, enjoy every been charged on two misdemeanor counts of violating the Endangered Species Act and animal cruelty.

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Per the criminal official weird and wonderful, Ankle and Keith A. Wilson, owner of Wilson’s Wild Animal Park in Virginia, illegally trafficked lion cubs between their two parks. Antle beforehand told Myrtle Seaside’s WBTW News13 that he took three cubs from Wilson’s park after it became as soon as shut down by authorities.

In 2019, Wilson and his nephew Christian Dall’Acqua were indicted on 46 counts of animal cruelty final November after the Herring’s assert of work seized 119 animals from his park, including lions, tigers, bears, camels, goats, water buffalo and more. A think ordered the seizure, asserting that Wilson “cruelly treated, skipped over, or deprived the animal[s] of ample care.”