TAMPA MAN HAD ANIMAL PARTS IN FREEZER (As do most of us)

WBBH-TV—Ft. Myers, FL ^ | 8/11/2005 | WVVH-TV Staffers

[ElCapusto]

TAMPA — A Tampa man is getting a citation for storing animal parts in a freezer.

Police say Lester Huckaby can be punished by up to 60 days in county jail and a $500 fine. He had birds that wildlife officials say are protected under the Federal Migratory Bird Treaty Act.

Authorities say an anonymous caller told police that Huckaby was storing part of a migratory bird and pieces of sea turtles inside a freezer in his house.

When authorities searched they house, they say they found one room filled with hawk wings, talons and a raccoon in the process of being skinned. When they opened the freezer, police say out came animal parts: alligator heads, turtle chunks and sandhill cranes.

Huckaby was arrested in 1990 for the possession, sale or transportation of alligator skin.

According to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission Web site, Florida sandhill cranes are found in pastures, prairies and freshwater wetlands in peninsular Florida from the Everglades to the Okefenokee Swamp.

The two subspecies found in Florida have gray plumage and an unfeathered carmine red crown.

[ElCapusto]

I have a leg of lamb in my freezer.

[RexBeach]

I have a dangling conversation in my front parlor.

[somniferum]

In my freezer I have a good assortment of Catfish, Deer, and of course frog legs (I gigged em myself!).

[FrPR]

Well, as far as my fridge is concerned, that's the inescapable difference between dismembered bodies and a six-pack of St. Pauli Girl. To wit: I'm all out of beer.

[Red Badger]

All he has to do is claim them as religious artifact, i.e. sacrificial animals. I have sacrificed fish, turkey, chicken, pigs, cows, lambs, and the occasional deer in my freezer.........

[Dallas59]

I wonder this guys Mom is at???

[Red Badger]

I don't sacrifice amphibians.......

[over3Owithabrain]

I have no animal parts in my freezer - just some frozen Tyson "chicken" and Groton fish sticks...

[Millee]

The authorities have been contacted. Stay where you are. ;-)

[Seeking the truth]

Authorities say an anonymous caller told police that Huckaby was storing part of a migratory bird and pieces of sea turtles inside a freezer in his house.

So, this is all it takes for a search?

[cyborg]

I have more animal part stuffs than I know what to do with thanks to the future bride-groom.

[Brilliant]

"When authorities searched the house..."

I wonder what the search warrant said. "He has animal parts in his freezer."

Not probable cause in my view. And how would they know they were endangered without seizing them and testing them first?

[rabidralph]

Mmmmmm, turtle chunks.

[JoeSixPack1]

A quick inventory of the frozer section turns up - Dead chickens, dead cows, dead elk, dead bambi, dead fish, dead pig, dead lamb, 3 frozen glass mugs(for emergency use only) and a package of frozen crab cakes.

I need to go buy some coffee cream. :-)

[rabidralph]

According to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission Web site, Florida sandhill cranes are found in pastures, prairies, [and Lester's freezer].

[Hoodlum91]

It's a poorly written story.

He wasn't arrested for having animal parts in the freezer, it was the TYPE of animal. I'm thinking it's the cranes and alligators that got him in trouble.

Of course, I'm wondering why authorites could enter his house and search his freezer based on one person's tip.

[cyborg]

Hannibal Lecter

[QwertyKPH]

I have animal parts in my belly.

MMMM Good!

[NonValueAdded]

Oh, so you get someone else to do your killing for you, eh?

[r9etb]

So, this is all it takes for a search?

The animals in question are protected. Probable cause and the guy's past history say "yes" to the search warrant.

[Horatio Gates]

I'm wondering why authorites could enter his house and search his freezer based on one person's tip

Like you said, the article was poorly written.

[r9etb]

Not probable cause in my view. And how would they know they were endangered without seizing them and testing them first?

The guy had a past history of this, for one thing.

[ZULU]

The headline, as usual, is misleading.

The jerk is in trouble for killing endangered species.

Besides, what is he doing with refrigerated oddball parts of animals?

Does he belong to another Satanic cult or Santeria or something??

[Brilliant]

Yes, but that doesn't entitle them to search him any time they want. I'm sure they had something else to go on.

[absolootezer0]

oh no! not a raccoon!
never had one in my freezer, but i had one on a spit last year at deer camp (stoopid bugger spooked an 8 point, and i was hungry)

[Joe 6-pack]

"A quick inventory of the frozer section turns up..."

I have a python in my pants....

[dfwgator]

"Parts is parts."

[JoeSixPack1]

I always wanted some "cyborg" parts,, And my freezer has room! :-)

[JoeSixPack1]

I have a python in my pants...

And you're still lonely!! :-)

[minerboy]

I wonder if the person who called the police is part of PETA. I love PETA... For every animal they don't eat, I get to eat three.

[r9etb]

Yes, but that doesn't entitle them to search him any time they want. I'm sure they had something else to go on.

Probably so -- the old "more to the story" phenomenon.

[Joe 6-pack]

"And you're still lonely!! :-)"

Other men shun me because it makes them feel inadequate. Most women merely tremble in fear.

[roylene]

Me too. As well as some Alaskan salmon, chicken .....

[JoeSixPack1]

Most women merely tremble in fear.

Maybe you'd have better luck if you kept the python in the front part of your pants!! Doh!!!

[AliVeritas]

But you had congress trying to get police into a hospice and couldn't...maybe more anonymous tips would have helped?

[AliVeritas]

Then you woke up Joe.

[Joe 6-pack]

"Maybe you'd have better luck if you kept the python in the front part of your pants!! Doh!!!"

I have no control over that thing. It's got a mind of its own.

[ElCapusto]

I'm thinking it's the cranes and alligators that got him in trouble.

But they were DEAD.

[ElCapusto]

PETA never cared what Jeffrey Dahmer had in his freezer.

[Sloth]

Authorities say an anonymous caller told police that Huckaby was storing part of a migratory bird and pieces of sea turtles inside a freezer in his house.

An anonymous phone call is all that's needed to get a search warrant?! So all a cop has to do is walk out to the pay phone & call one of his colleagues to create 'probable cause'?

[Sloth]

Hannibal Lecter

My wife has a bovine vascular implant in her pulmonary artery, so sometimes when she eats beef I call her a cannibal.

[JoeSixPack1]

ROFLMAO!!! OK,, where did ya get it and do they have another one? :-)

[Mister Baredog]

My wife has a bovine vascular implant in her pulmonary artery, so sometimes when she eats beef I call her a cannibal.

Is that your current wife or your ex-wife? LMAO.

[Sloth]

She's my current heifer. :)

[Zavien Doombringer]

I have a python in my pants....

and it's choking your chicken....

[Joe 6-pack]

"OK where did ya get it...?"

Hartford, Connecticut....right from the factory...

[Mister Baredog]

She's my current heifer. :)

She must be a "rare" woman(at least medium rare), LOL.

[seemoAR]

I don't know anything about the law in Florida or Tennessee. I do know that a game warden does not need a search warrant in Arkansas. He can go into any house he chooses. All that is required is for him to have a suspicion that you have illegal game in your freezer. He can come into your house and search your freezer and you can not legally stop him. He has much more authority than the sheriff or local police departments. I have heard of law enforcement using the game wardens to gain entrance into houses.

[bikerman]

Damn,I better get rid of my Manatee steaks,spotted owl chunks and bald eagle.

[Graycliff]

Game Wardens have broader authority, under certain circumstances.

The story is poorly written.

Hawks have complete federal protection no kill, no time.
I believe turtles are the same.
There are seasons on Gators and Sandhills. But they must be taken and stored legally.

He's in big trouble.