'Tiger King' star Bhagavan 'Doc' Antle has been charged with buying or selling endangered lemurs, cheetahs, and a chimpanzee without the proper paperwork, federal prosecutors in South Carolina said Thursday.
star Bhagavan "Doc" Antle has been charged with buying or selling endangered lemurs, cheetahs, and a chimpanzee without the proper paperwork, federal prosecutors in South Carolina said Thursday., where authorities said Antle tried to hide more than half a million dollars made in an operation to smuggle people across the Mexican border into the U.S.documentary miniseries that focused on tiger breeders and private zoo operators in the U.S.
Antle was also charged with exchanging a chimpanzee with Franklin Drive Through Safari in Franklin, Texas. Owner Jason Clay didn’t return a phone message and a lawyer was not listed in court records. Antle’s lawyers did not respond to an email Thursday and court records didn’t list a lawyer for Bybee, 51.
Antle tried to hide the scheme by inflating tourist numbers at his 50-acre wildlife tropical preserve, prosecutors said.
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