A Hawaiian teenager faces up to 10 years in prison after he and Pal stole a woman’s pet pig and killed him to deceive a $ 1,000 hunting contest award.
Jayden Jarnesky-Magana, 19, and the accomplice Kryan Saito-Carino, 20, allegedly snatched “Eddie” from the Maui farm of Sarah Haynes last May and then filmed their dogs viciously, attacking the poor creature.
They prosecuted to kill and gut Eddie and entered him at the last minute in a local “pork” hunting contest, but the hunters there suspected after pointing out that the pig had married the leg and that it was a lot of heavy that the typical wild pigs entered the contest.
“No one believed him,” Haynes told Khon2.
Eddie was too heavy for the two men to take their truck to the weight scale, said Haynes, but ended up moving away with the $ 1,000 Maney prize for the biggest pig hunted.
Jarnesky-Magana and Saito-Carino were arrested and accused in August of animal cruelty later last year after a police investigation, Maui now reported.
In January, Jarnesky-Magana changed his declaration of non-guilty to any contest and is scheduled to be sentenced on Wednesday for serious cruelty of animal cruelty in the first degree and theft of cattle, that each one is a maximum sentence of five years.
Saito-Carino is expected to also change his plea on Wednesday, according to Kohn2.
Haynes has organized a demonstration outside the Wailuku court to raise awareness about animal cruelty.
“Eddie was super friendly,” said Haynes. “Young children could hug him, you know, he would sit. You could bark like a dog. I mean, he was the most adorable, sweet and gentle soul.”
She had adopted the pig several years ago and led him to her Gatito charm farm in Haiku after they found him running by Kihei with scars and rope burns, presumable because he was used to training hunting dogs.
“And you know, his life began with cruelty, and he was determined to make that disappear for life. And unfortunately he ended up in the same way that begins, you know, with hunting dogs.”
“I don’t want to make anyone’s life and I don’t think there is any possibility that they get 10 years, but what I would like to see, I would like to see a punishment,” he added.
“This was a harmful mistake, this was a confusion about the law. This was a planned attack on my cap,” he added.