Robert F. Kennedy Jr. isn’t on the New York police radar because he dumped a dead bear in Central Park a decade ago … TMZ has learned.
NYPD sources tell TMZ they are not investigating the independent presidential candidate. We also contacted the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, and RFK Jr. is also aware of that.
New Yorkers @ClareMalone got a photo of RFK and the dead bear cub pic.twitter.com/UGGp70walH
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NYSDEC said they conducted an investigation into the death of the bear cub in Central Park in 2014, concluding that the bear died from blunt force trauma consistent with a high-speed collision. Due to lack of evidence, they closed the investigation later that year without issuing any citations.
Now NYSDEC has the power to issue citations for the illegal removal of a bear; Violators may be fined $250. The point is… there’s a one-year statute of limitations on this violation, so RFK Jr. is perfectly clear.
This comes a day after Kennedy property of the whole bear-in-the-park stunt that left locals scratching their heads for a decade. RFK Jr. told the story in an apparent attempt to anticipate a story The New Yorker …which is out now and features a photo of RFK Jr. with the dead cub.
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RFK posted a video on In the video he tells the story to the actor Roseanne Barr.
He grabbed the bear off the road because he says he didn’t want the meat to go to waste… but he got caught up in other things and never got home to put the animal in the fridge, so he decided to just dump it. in Central Park.
RFK Jr. said that a group of pedestrians had been hit by cyclists in the park at the time… so he and his friends thought it would be funny to blame the bear’s death on a cyclist.
Of course, no one thought it was funny, and the NYPD’s Animal Cruelty Investigation Squad showed up in Central Park to find out what happened. But the investigation lost steam, and Kennedy says no one contacted him until The New Yorker started putting it all together.