Punxsutawney Phil Wanted for Deception … Shoot to Kill?

Punxsutawney Phil is wanted for deception by the Monroe County Sheriff's Office in Pennsylvania after the groundhog's prediction of "six more weeks of winter" ended last week, but the area was slammed with its fourth nor'easter of the month on Wednesday, WBRE-TV reported.

The groundhog "Most Wanted" poster made the Monroe County Sheriff's Office warrant wall this week, per the television station, as the nor'easter dumped about a foot of snow in some areas of Atlantic Coast around Pennsylvania, New York, and New Jersey, foiling the Punxsutawney Phil's forecast.

"Kind of a 'wall of shame', if you will," Sheriff Office Cpl. Scott Martin told WBRE-TV. "(Visitors) stop, they look, they do the double take because they can't believe what they're seeing.”

"The subject in question is about 20 inches in length, 22 pounds, he has brown and grey hair, brown eyes, sharp teeth," he adds.

A Facebook post on Punxsutawney Phil's wanted poster on the sheriff's office's Facebook page went viral as it's been shared nearly 4,000 times by others probably weary of the nor'easters as well.

Every Feb. 2, Punxsutawney Phil crawls out of its marmot hole to give of the most famous weather predictions in the world, per CNN. Last month, Phil reportedly saw his shadow and predicted six more weeks of winter, which ended last week.

Inner Circle of the Punxsutawney Groundhog Club, which does the annual ceremony, noted CNN, was not listed as accomplices, though.

The Monroe County Sheriff's Office just wants the groundhog.

"If they (the public) sees him, give us a call, because we want to take him into custody," Martin, who admits he has grown tired of the snow over the past month, said with a laugh, per WBRE-TV.

According to ABC News, the latest nor'easter dumped 16 inches of snow in Lehigh and Montgomery counties in Pennsylvania, 14.5 inches in Queens and 13.8 in Staten Island, another 20.1 in Suffolk County on Long Island, and 15 inches in Ocean County, New Jersey. Frederick County Maryland near Washington, D.C. got 16.5 inches of snow.

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