A Florida man claiming to be a ship captain was arrested Thursday after admitting he repeatedly stabbed a shark within the head in a Snapchat video that went viral late final month.
Zane Garrett, 26, was charged with aggravated animal cruelty after gruesomely knifing a bull shark close to a wreck website off Key West on Might 22 in a video titled “Bud broke my rod,” Native 10 reported.
Garrett, who’s recognized as a captain on Second Nature Charters’ web site, was turned over by an nameless tipster who noticed the horrifying video and reported it to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Fee, citing “security issues,” in line with the outlet.
Garrett was just lately “investigated for false illustration” as a result of he doesn’t have the required license to be a captain, it added.
Officers interviewed the person who initially posted the video and pointed them straight to Garrett.
“Sure, to weapons for the 11th of September inch filet knife, sure to violent habits for stabbing a shark repeatedly, sure to worrying over them being dumb sufficient to publish themselves committing a criminal offense,” the tipster mentioned of their report.
“Yah, that’s me,” Garrett admitted when authorities introduced him with the gory footage.
Garrett claimed that his actions fell in step with the everyday methodology used to discourage sharks from stealing catches, and that stabbing one would ward others off.
He later confessed to stabbing the shark quite a few instances in an act of “revenge” as a result of the predator “had stolen his fish and was a nuisance,” in line with the warrant cited by Native 10.
“I requested Mr. Garrett if he thought that the repeated blows would ultimately kill the shark, to which he replied, ‘No. It takes much more to kill a shark than stabbing it within the head,’” the doc said.
He additionally confessed that he “did much more killing” of sharks with firearms and “has stabbed sharks and/or killed sharks with out harvesting them onto his boat many instances up to now.”
Authorities condemned the “egregious” slaying for inflicting pointless hurt to the shark.
Garrett is being held within the Monroe County Sheriff’s Workplace Key West jail facility on a $10,000 bond. His association is about for June 26.
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