Officers also discovered that the couple illegally possessed mountain lion claws, a ringtail cat, a barn owl mount, a spike buck, and several deer with tagging violations. "Deer season was closed ...

A California couple told plain-clothed officers they were smuggling a sea turtle skull, hunted mountain lion and their family ...

They were just passengers aboard an airplane, flying over California and having a chat. The couple was relating their adventures in hunting to the pair of fliers in the row ahead of them.

They also found illegally owned and protected animals and animal parts, Tira said: “Mountain lion claws, a ringtail cat, a barn owl mount, an illegal spike buck and several unlawfully taken deer ...

At their home, the authorities discovered a mounted barn owl, a ringtail cat, mountain lion claws, and many deer that had been captured without the appropriate tags. In California, ringtail cats ...