Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is not on police radar in New York for dumping a dead bear in Central Park a decade ago … TMZ has learned.
NYSDEC said they conducted a 2014 investigation into the Central Park bear cub’s death, concluding the bear died from blunt-force trauma consistent with a high-speed collision. Due to a lack of evidence, they closed the probe later that year without issuing any citations.
Now, NYSDEC has the power to issue citations for the illegal disposal of a bear — violators can be fined $250. Thing is … there’s a one-year statute of limitations on this offense, so RFK Jr. is way in the clear.
This comes a day after Kennedy owned up to the whole bear-in-the-park stunt that had locals scratching their heads for 10 years. RFK Jr. recounted the tale in an apparent attempt to get ahead of a story by The New Yorker … which is now out and features a pic of RFK Jr. with the dead cub.
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RFK Jr. said, back then, there had been a bunch of pedestrians getting hit by cyclists in the park … so he and his friends thought it would be funny to pin the bear’s death on a bike rider.
