Igor Lytvynchuk, 38, was hit with federal charges and beaten up by locals after the caught-on-video incident at a Lahaina beach on May 5, but was only trying to protect the turtles — known lo…
claims he was actually doing a good thing – by trying to save a pair of helpless turtles.after the caught-on-video incident at a Lahaina beach on May 5, but was only trying to protect the turtles — known locally as honu — by scaring the beloved seal away, his lawyer told reporters.
“I want to be resoundingly clear to the public – he never intended to injure the monk seal,” attorney Myles Breiner told KHON-TV News. “He wanted to scare the seal away from the honu he saw there. “Apparently, there were two large turtles and one had already been knocked off the rock by the seal,” Breiner told the outlet. “Sea lions are very aggressive.
” The knucklehead from Seattle went viral after a bystander filmed him throwing a coconut-sized rock at the seal that Hawaiians lovingly call Lani, and made matters worse when asked why. Enraged locals tracked him down and at least one man slugged him over the incident. Lytvynchuk is now facing a federal charge of disturbing or harassing an endangered animal and could face up to one year in prison and a $50,000 fine.
However, the lawyer said the flippant statement attributed to his client is off the mark.
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