MONTESANO, Wash. (AP) — A jury acquitted a Hoquiam man who was accused of breaking into a home and throwing a dead mink at another man during a confrontation that made weasel headlines across the country.
Defense lawyer Chris Crew said Monday the Grays Harbor County jury found 33-year-old Jobie J. Watkins of Hoquiam not guilty of burglary.
Crew said witnesses provided inconsistent accounts and the “prosecution failed to prove a link to the mink.”
Watkins was accused of attacking his girlfriend’s ex-boyfriend on June 6 in Hoquiam.
The Daily World of Aberdeen reports court records say Watkins admitted finding the dead mink along the road, but never explained why he carried the carcass.
