Felony Charges for Two Men Who Stole and Killed a Pet Pig to Win a Hunting Contest

Two Hawaiian men are up against felony charges after hunters foiled their plan to cheat their way into winning a local hunting contest.

With a $1,000 prize on the line, Jayden Jarnesky-Magana, 18, of Wailuku, and Krys-Ryan Saito Carino, 20, of Waiehu, came up with an elaborate scheme that involved breaking and entering kidnapping, murder and deceit.

The pair had their sights set on a pig named “Eddie”, a 250-pound domesticated pig that was living his best life at a sanctuary in Haiku known as Kitty Charm Farm. According to a Facebook post by the farm’s owner, the two men broke into the sanctuary hog-tied Eddie and dragged him off the property through a hole they cut in her fence. At this point, the pig was still alive and their plan was to record a “hunting’ video of them in pursuit of the large pig.

“They then used Eddie to stage a fake hunting video with their dogs. They killed him, gutted him, and transported him to a contest in Makawao that they had entered the night before,” farm owner Sarah Haynes wrote in a Facebook post.

Haynes went on to say that it was hunters who helped her locate her missing pig. After posting a picture of her beloved pig, several hunters shared the video that was used to win the contest, asking her if this was her missing pig.

“The hunters were skeptical apparently from the minute the pig arrived, because he’s neutered and was 250 pounds, usually the winning pig is 150,” Haynes told Island News. “The two men and their friends that showed up at the competition, they couldn’t pick him up off the back of the truck, he fell to the ground.”

The two have since been charged with felonies for animal cruelty and theft of livestock, along with misdemeanors for criminal property damage.

Haynes, on the other hand, while saddened about the loss of her pet pig, remains staunchly in support of law-abiding hunters. 

“Hunters have a code of conduct,” Haynes wrote on Facebook. “These young men broke all the rules… The hunting community will need to reassess contests in general, and incentives that attract illegal behavior. But they did not commit the crimes against Eddie,” she continued. “This is about stealing a pet, putting that pet through tremendous trauma. It’s also about fraudulently entering a contest to win money.”