Tourist arrested for rock attack on endangered seal

Igor Mykhaylovych Lytvynchuk, a 38-year-old businessman from Washington, was arrested after video evidence showed him throwing a rock at an endangered Hawaiian monk seal named Lani off a Maui beach. He faces federal charges for harassing a protected species and up to one year in prison.

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