{"id":473097,"date":"2010-03-25T17:01:11","date_gmt":"2010-03-25T21:01:11","guid":{"rendered":"tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c630a53ef01310fde4b8e970c"},"modified":"2010-03-25T17:01:11","modified_gmt":"2010-03-25T21:01:11","slug":"man-accused-of-stomping-pelican-who-stole-his-catch-at-newport-pier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/473097","title":{"rendered":"Man accused of stomping pelican who stole his catch at Newport Pier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dailypilot.com\/content\/articles\/2010\/03\/25\/publicsafety\/dpt-pelican032510.jpg\" style=\"FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0pt 0pt 5px 5px; WIDTH: 171px; HEIGHT: 231px\"><\/img>Orange County prosecutors have charged a\u00a0Perris man who allegedly attacked a pelican on the Newport Pier when it tried to steal his catch.<\/p>\n<p>The incident occurred last week, and authorities allege the fisherman stomped on the pelican\u2019s beak. An online posting from a local rescue shelter said he also kicked it in the head.<\/p>\n<p>Daniel Richard Moreno, 19, will be in court Friday for a pretrial hearing after pleading not guilty last week to misdemeanor animal cruelty. Police said Moreno was fishing on the pier about 3:30 p.m. on March 14 and set one of the fish he caught on the ground next to him.<br \/><\/br><br \/><\/br><\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s when a pelican standing on a nearby building\u2019s roof swooped down and tried to grab Moreno\u2019s fish, authorities said.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><\/br>The pelican had\u00a0a 33- to 36-centimeter \u201chairline fracture\u201d on\u00a0its beak, Debbie McGuire, director for the Wetlands and Wildlife Care Center in Huntington Beach, told the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailypilot.com\/articles\/2010\/03\/25\/publicsafety\/dpt-pelican032510.txt\">Daily Pilot.<\/a>\u00a0The fracture drew blood from the bird, police said. <\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Joseph Serna, Daily Pilot<\/p>\n<p><em>Photo: The pelican who was allegedly attacked. Credit: Daily Pilot<br \/><\/br><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Orange County prosecutors have charged a\u00a0Perris man who allegedly attacked a pelican on the Newport Pier when it tried to steal his catch. The incident occurred last week, and authorities allege the fisherman stomped on the pelican\u2019s beak. An online posting from a local rescue shelter said he also kicked it in the head. Daniel [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4131,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-473097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473097","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4131"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=473097"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473097\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=473097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=473097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=473097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}