PACIFIC GROVE, Calif. - The National Marine Fisheries Service on Monday announced a $20,000 reward for information leading to a balding man with a hunting knife whom they say was observed decapitating the head of a dead sea lion.

In a bulletin, NOAA said the seal lion was found at Point Pinos Beach in Monterey County's Pacific Grove on July 27 at 8:40 p.m.

A white man in his 50s or 60s, standing about 5 foot 9, and sporting a balding head with a full beard, was seen with a hunting knife standing over the dead sea lion, NOAA said, without saying who saw him or how the picture of him was taken.

The man was seen placing the head of the sea lion in a plastic bag and left in a late-model white Cadillac Escalade, NOAA said.

It's unclear who took the picture and why NOAA released the info

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