A 37-year-old man from Seattle was detained in Hawaii after he was accused of throwing a rock at a monk seal while it was swimming along the Lahaina shoreline.
The Maui Police Department brought in the Division of Conservation and Resources Enforcement’s (DOCARE) Maui Branch on May 5 after receiving a report of “monk seal harassment.” After getting a description of the suspect from the reporting party, they located the Seattle resident and detained him. He has declined to make a statement.
The rock was allegedly thrown at Kaiwi (RK96), a 15-year-old female monk seal, who is behind a temporary fence at Kaimana Beach after giving birth to a pup on the beach earlier this week…