An Australian celebrity crocodile wrangler was found guilty Friday of lying to police and seeking to falsify flight records more than three years after a fatal helicopter crash.

A jury convicted Matt Wright, star of the "Wild Croc Territory," "Monster Croc Wrangler" and "Outback Wrangler" series, of two counts of perverting the course of justice, court documents showed.

The month-long trial at Darwin Supreme Court followed a 2022 helicopter crash in the Northern Territory outback that killed his friend and co-star Chris Wilson and left the pilot a paraplegic.

Wilson was dangling from the helicopter by a 100-foot line to collect crocodile eggs when it ran out of fuel and crashed, an air crash investigation found.

Matt Wright (L), the star of Netflix show Wild Croc Territory and Nati

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