{"id":844809,"date":"2026-09-12T02:40:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-12T02:40:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/844809\/"},"modified":"2026-09-12T02:40:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-12T02:40:10","slug":"mounted-mountain-lion-head-leads-to-charges-for-antique-shop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/844809\/","title":{"rendered":"Mounted mountain lion head leads to charges for antique shop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mamakating, NY (WRGB) \u2014 A tip from a frequent shopper sent Environmental Conservation Officers to an antique store in Mamakating, where investigators say a mounted mountain lion head was being offered for sale.<\/p>\n<p>On July 29, ECOs in Sullivan County responded to the store after receiving the tip. An undercover officer found the mounted head in the back of the store and made a deal to purchase it as a uniformed officer responded to the location.<\/p>\n<p>Despite claims from the store owner and an employee that they didn\u2019t know it was illegal to sell the mountain lion head, ECOs charged the owner with illegal commercialization of a prohibited species. The charge is returnable to the Town of Mamakating Court.<\/p>\n<p>ECOs also confiscated the mounted head as evidence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mamakating, NY (WRGB) \u2014 A tip from a frequent shopper sent Environmental Conservation Officers to an antique store&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":844810,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[192,79],"class_list":["post-844809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/844809","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=844809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/844809\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/844810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=844809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=844809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=844809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}