No, its a martin...
HOQUIAM, Wash. -- Police say a man was carrying a dead weasel when he burst into a Hoquiam apartment and assaulted a man.
The victim asked, "Why are you carrying a weasel?" Police said the attacker said, "It's not a weasel, it's a martin," then punched him in the nose and fled.
The attacker was apparently looking for his girlfriend and had gone to her former boyfriend's apartment Monday night where the victim was a guest.
KXRO reports he left carcass behind.
Police later found the suspect arguing with his girlfriend at another location and arrested the 33-year-old Hoquiam man after a fight.
He said he had found the martin dead near Hoquiam, but police don't know why he carried it with him.
A martin is a member of the weasel family.[/b]
Hoquiam man acquitted in dead weasel assault
"It's not a weasel, it's a martin!"
MONTESANO, Wash. – 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.
The story spread partially because of Watkins' reported insistence that the dead animal was a somewhat rare marten.
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