Teen handcuffed Sam Mazzola to waterbed, sheriff’s officials say

A 17-year-old boy chained and handcuffed Sam Mazzola to the waterbed where the same teen found Mazzola dead on Sunday morning, Lorain County sheriff’s Sgt. Donald Barker said Thursday…more

Exotic Exit: Sam Mazzola’s animals are on the move

19 Action News cameras were rolling Wednesday night as the lions, tigers, bears and other animals were hauled away.

Friday, they'll move the bears and that should be the end of the exotic farm.

Meantime, Mazzola's death is still under investigation as police search for a person who may have been with him in his last hours…see video

Owner of Ohio bear that killed caretaker dies during sexual role-playing

Sam Mazzola, 49, was found last week face down on his water bed, wearing a mask and with his arms and legs restrained, said Dr. Frank P. Miller III, a pathologist at the Lorain County coroner's office...more

Authorities want to know who was at Sam Mazzola's home in the hours before he died

Lorain County Sheriff's deputies are still trying to determine who was at Sam Mazzola's North Marks Road compound in the hours before and after he died...more

Exotic animal owner Sam Mazzola died bound in his home during an apparent sex act gone wrong, coroner says

Exotic-animal owner Sam Mazzola was found dead in his Columbia Station home Sunday, "bound to the bed with handcuffs, chains and padlocks," said Lorain County Deputy Coroner Frank Miller...more

Sam Mazzola was found handcuffed to bed, coroner says

Controversial exotic animal owner Sam Mazzola, who was found dead Sunday at his North Marks Road compound, died of asphyxia due to an airway obstruction, Deputy Lorain County Coroner Frank Miller said Monday...more

Future of Exotic Animal Farm Unknown after Death of Owner

But some residents in the northwest section of town are hoping the death of their owner, Sam Mazzola, will mean the animals will move on. "I'm sorry to hear the owner has died, but I hope to stop worrying about my kids being mauled by a wandering lion...more

Bear-Owner Mazzola Found Deceased

Mazzola had been criticized for staging wrestling exhibits between bears and humans for a number of years. Eventually his license to exhibit animals was revoked by the USDA, but he was allowed to continue keeping animals...more

Sheriff: Bear Owner Sam Mazzola Found Dead

The Lorain County Sheriff's Office confirms that Sam Mazzola, the exotic animal owner whose bear fatally mauled a caretaker last year, was found dead in his home Sunday afternoon...see video

Mazzola found dead at Columbia Township home

Controversial exotic animal owner Sam Mazzola was found dead in bed this morning by an employee...more

Wild animal work group begins talks

COLUMBUS — A work group has begun meeting to draft rules on regulating dangerous wild animals in Ohio, an issue that resulted from the bear-mauling death of 24-year-old Elyrian, Brent Kandra…

…The work group meetings will not be open to the public, but ODNR will publish meeting summaries at ohiodnr.com. ODNR Assistant Director Scott Zody will lead the meetings…

Outreach to the public is an important part of this process

said Zody, adding that the work group will develop a schedule that allows for public comment and public open houses…more