LOMPOC, Calif.- A man from Lompoc wanted to make some extra cash by selling a mounted boar's head, but he says the moment he handed it over he got a surprise he will never forget.
"Two guys jumped out with guns blazing my twin 6-year-old daughters were standing right here there pointing guns at them yelling at them, get the f out, move, then they proceeded to come up and arrest me," says Brian Blakeboro, boar's head owner.
Brian Blakeboro says more than 10 officers from the California Department of Fish and Game drove all the way from Los Angeles to Lompoc to give him a $150 ticket because he was selling a boar's head that can be found in California.
"I didn't know I was breaking the law, I had no clue it was against the law to even sell a taxidermy animal," says Blakeboro.
Blakeboro didn't know he would be charged with a misdemeanor.
"She handed me 500 hundred dollars cash, 20 dollar bills I started taking the mount off the wall, and as I started taking the mount off the wall I heard a car come screeching up I watched it bounce off the curb in front of my house,"says Blakeboro.
Blakeboro says the boar's head was legally transported from Montana and still can't understand why guns were pointed at his daughters.
"Every time I contacted Fish and Game about it, no one cared and they were really rude," says Blakeboro.
Central Coast News reached out to the Department of Fish and Game to ask them about this case or similar cases but they didn't offer much information.
"We do not discuss any non adjudicated cases," says Lieutenant Jennifer Ikemoto, California Department of Fish and Game.
Two weeks later, Blakeboro received a letter from the district attorney's office saying the charges would be dropped, but he has yet to get his boar's head back.
