A US tourist faces federal charges after allegedly throwing a large rock at an endangered Hawaiian monk seal on Maui. The suspect was arrested in Washington state following a witness report.

A tourist from Washington state is facing federal charges after a witness recorded what prosecutors say was a video of him hurling a coconut-sized rock at an endangered Hawaiian monk seal just off a Maui beach last week. Special agents with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration arrested Igor Mykhaylovych Lytvynchuk, 38, in the Seattle area Wednesday, the US attorney’s office in Honolulu said. Lytvynchuk, who lives in Covington, Washington, was scheduled to appear in US District...