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Sep 12, 2019 · On June 26, 2017, Benac, Spencer Heintz, Michael Wenzel and another man departed from Wenzel’s waterfront home in Palmetto on a 22-foot Aquasport boat and took a trip into the Gulf of Mexico....
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- Higher Education Reporter
Dec 13, 2017 · According to CNN, those three men, recently identified as Michael Wenzel, Robert Lee Benac, and Spencer Heintz, are each being charged with two felony counts of aggravated animal cruelty. In addition, Wenzel and Benac are being charged with an illegal method of take, a misdemeanor crime.
In late 2017, the Whiting School lost two founding chairs. Robert E. Green Jr. , co-founder of the Department of Materials Science and Engineering and founder of the Center for Nondestructive Evaluation, died on Nov. 21.
Dec 15, 2017 · Among the three men charged is Michael Wenzel, 21, of Palmetto, who was captain of the boat and a friend of Alex Kompothecras, star of the MTV reality show Siesta Key.
Sep 12, 2019 · Benac, Michael Wenzel and Spencer Heintz were arrested on Dec. 12, 2017 on charges stemming from a videotaped incident involving a blacktip shark being dragged behind Wenzel’s boat in the Gulf of Mexico near Egmont Key, approximately two miles offshore of the city of Anna Maria.
May 1, 2018 · Michael Wenzel (back) and Robert Lee “Bo” Benac (front) have been identified as two of the men allegedly behind a video that went viral of a boat dragging a shark at high speed. Photo: Facebook
Feb 28, 2019 · Michael Wenzel, who piloted the boat seen in a viral video that depicted a shark being shot to death, pleaded guilty to misdemeanor animal cruelty.
