Federal authorities are offering a $20,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of a man who was filmed decapitating a sea lion on a beach in Monterey County earlier this summer.

Investigators from the National Marine Fisheries Service say the sea lion was believed to have already been dead on Point Pinos Beach in Pacific Grove, about 2 miles from the Monterey Bay Aquarium, when a man drove up in a Cadillac Escalade, and used a hunting knife to saw the animal’s head off.

He placed it in a plastic bag and drove a way as horrified onlookers watched.

A similar incident occurred at Doran Regional Park in Bodega Bay in December. Then, a man in his 30s decapitated a dead sea lion, put the animal’s head in a plastic bag and rode away on an e-bike, witnesses said. The fis

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