Texas man arrested for stealing 2 monkeys from Dallas Zoo says he'll do it again if released, court documents show
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Davion Irvin, who remained jailed Tuesday on $25,000 bond, was arrested last week after asking questions at a downtown Dallas aquarium about animals there.
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Davion Irvin, who remained jailed Tuesday on $25,000 bond, was arrested last week after asking questions at a downtown Dallas aquarium about animals there.
Police said have said they are still investigating, but the man has not been linked to the suspicious death of an endangered vulture at the zoo in January.
Court documents say a 24-year-old man who police have linked to several unusual events at the Dallas Zoo, including the nabbing of two small monkeys later found at a vacant
A 24-year-old man now linked to an unusual string of crimes that kept the Dallas Zoo on the lookout for missing animals told police that after he swiped two monkeys from their enclosure, he took them onto the city’s light rail system to make his getaway, court records show.
Court records say Davion Irvin told police that he jumped a zoo fence after dark, cut the metal mesh of a tamarin monkey enclosure and took the two emperor tamarin monkeys before escaping by train.
