Holt and Hill are expected to be fined next week after pleading guilty to the assault, LEX18 News reported.
Two men upset over a bad business deal wanted their nemesis to eat more than his words.
A Kentucky man claims the two men cut off his beard and forced him to swallow it while they held his brother at knife point. The fight stemmed from a dispute over the sale of a lawn mower.
Harvey Westmoreland told a Lexington TV station that his two former friends, Troy Holt and James Hill, pulled out guns and knives and threatened to kill Westmoreland’s brother Joseph.
Then things got hairy.
"They cut my beard and forced me to eat it," Westmoreland said of the May incident.