Man sentenced for selling tiger skin

PITTSBURGH (AP) — A 61-year-old western Pennsylvania man has been sentenced to six months of home detention and three years’ probation for selling a tiger skin to an undercover agent.

Barry McMaster of Greensburg pleaded guilty in November.

Prosecutors say McMaster was paid $8,500 by an undercover U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service agent for a tiger skin in December 2004.

Prosecutors say the skin was shipped from McMaster’s son, Kevin, in Florida.

Kevin McMaster was sentenced in 2006 to 25 months in prison for selling or offering to sell more than $200,000 worth of gorilla skulls and skins of a tiger, snow leopard and jaguar through his Internet business.

The tiger is protected as an endangered species under federal law.