"But that is what happened. On Monday, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's fisheries law enforcement office released a photo of Bietz and offered a $20,000 reward for information leading to an arrest, civil penalty or criminal conviction in the July 27 decapitation of a sea lion at Point Pinos Beach in Pacific Grove. The next day, the agency took down the photo and said that no mammal parts had been taken from the beach after all."
"Rashelle Diaz, a Monterey resident who reported the incident to authorities, has a different memory of the events. She says she confronted Bietz and his daughter after she saw him leaning over the sea lion and prodding it with a knife. In a video Diaz recorded of the incident, she asks Bietz what he needs a dead seal for, to which he responds, "I told you we're just taking the head.""
NOAA's fisheries law enforcement office circulated a photo and offered a $20,000 reward seeking information in a July 27 sea lion decapitation at Point Pinos Beach. The agency later removed the photo and stated that no marine mammal parts had been taken from the beach. Jason Bietz, identified in the image, denies decapitating the animal and says the matter arose from a miscommunication while he and his teenage daughter examined a dead seal. A witness, Rashelle Diaz, recorded a confrontation in which Bietz is heard saying, "I told you we're just taking the head."
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