{"id":460,"date":"2009-09-26T13:00:04","date_gmt":"2009-09-26T12:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/monachus-guardian.org\/wordpress\/?p=460"},"modified":"2009-09-28T10:50:13","modified_gmt":"2009-09-28T09:50:13","slug":"man-pleads-guilty-to-killing-pregnant-monk-seal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/monachus-guardian.org\/wordpress\/2009\/09\/26\/man-pleads-guilty-to-killing-pregnant-monk-seal\/","title":{"rendered":"Man Pleads Guilty to Killing Pregnant Monk Seal"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5>Press Watch, KHON2, September 25, 2009<\/h5>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/www.khon2.com\/media\/lib\/128\/9\/6\/2\/9629e3af-aa42-43e3-be71-64b4005d9684\/Story.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"168\" height=\"168\" \/>A 78-year old Kauai man accused of killing a pregnant endangered Hawaiian monk seal in May pled guilty in federal court Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Court documents reveal Charles Vidinha used his browning 22-caliber rifle to fire four rounds at the seal at Pilia&#8217;a Beach on Kauai&#8217;s North Shore.<\/p>\n<p>Under the terms of the plea agreement, Vidinha will serve 90 days in jail, and he won&#8217;t have to pay a fine or restitution.<\/p>\n<p>If the case had gone to trial, he would&#8217;ve faced up to one year in prison and a $50,000 dollar fine.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.khon2.com\/news\/local\/story\/Man-Pleads-Guilty-to-Killing-Pregnant-Monk-Seal\/FRbPKx69A02dMT8iH7RDsg.cspx\">Full Story<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Press Watch, KHON2, September 25, 2009 A 78-year old Kauai man accused of killing a pregnant endangered Hawaiian monk seal in May pled guilty in federal court Friday. Court documents reveal Charles Vidinha used his browning 22-caliber rifle to fire four rounds at the seal at Pilia&#8217;a Beach on Kauai&#8217;s North Shore. Under the terms &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/monachus-guardian.org\/wordpress\/2009\/09\/26\/man-pleads-guilty-to-killing-pregnant-monk-seal\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Man Pleads Guilty to Killing Pregnant Monk Seal&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[25],"class_list":["post-460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hawaiian-monk-seal","tag-direct-killing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/monachus-guardian.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/monachus-guardian.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/monachus-guardian.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monachus-guardian.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monachus-guardian.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=460"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/monachus-guardian.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":463,"href":"https:\/\/monachus-guardian.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460\/revisions\/463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/monachus-guardian.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monachus-guardian.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monachus-guardian.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}