Feds probing deaths of 2 monk seals

Press Watch — Honolulu Advertiser, June 18, 2009

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LIHU’E, Kaua’i — Federal officers are investigating the deliberate killings of two endangered Hawaiian monk seals on Kaua’i, and recently scoured a white pickup truck in search of a rifle believed to have been used to kill the monk seal known as RK06.

The officers with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s law enforcement branch didn’t find a weapon in the June 9 search, documents in federal court in Honolulu indicate. But NOAA confirmed for the first time yesterday that RK06 was shot to death. […]

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