Dallas Attorney Has Warrant Out For His Arrest For Killing A 13 Foot Gator

From The Star-Telegram:

Dallas attorney Levi McCathern II is likely not smiling so widely now.


McCathern, 42, a former Baptist minister whose website says he's represented Jerry Jones and the Dallas Cowboys in court, became something of a celebrity in his own right after claiming that he shot a 14-foot, 880-pound alligator on his first reptile hunt June 11.


Photos of him posing next to the beast along the Trinity River in Leon County were flashed on television, carried by newspapers and bounced around the Internet.


Turns out the alligator was actually 13 feet 1 inch and was no record as asserted.


Worse, arrest warrants were issued Wednesday for McCathern and his three guides for illegally hunting the big gator and an 8-footer on private property, Texas Parks and Wildlife Department officials said.


The four were expected to turn themselves in Wednesday at the Leon County Sheriff's Department in Centerville, about 145 miles southeast of Fort Worth, department spokesman Mike Cox said in a news release.


However, McCathern's attorney said that he was out of state on a scheduled family vacation and that the Leon County attorney has been informed. The attorney, George Milner III of Dallas, said his client will fight the charge, saying he understood that the guides had permission to be on the land to hunt.


"I can tell you he will be acquitted," Milner said.


Moreover, McCathern performed a public service, his lawyer asserted.


"As big as this alligator was, they should have given him a medal," Milner said.


One of the guides, Steve Barclay, insisted in a brief telephone interview that the landowner had given his OK.


"We did in fact have permission to kill alligators on that land," Barclay said.

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Gotta dig this guys style. Yeah, I kill 13 foot gators, represent Jerry Jones in court, and skip town to go on vacation when there are warrants out for my arrest. That's what you do when you're a big time badass. Shoot first, go on vacation later. Someone had to take down that tree-shaka, and it damn sure wasn't gonna be Lizabeth (Swamp People reference). And yeah, did you really expect me to have this article presented to me and not mention Swamp People. Impossible.

"Shooot! Shoot da gator in da head!"



"We don't got a tree shaka, we got a tree breaka."