{"id":1840354,"date":"2023-02-08T19:49:23","date_gmt":"2023-02-09T00:49:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1840354"},"modified":"2023-02-08T19:49:44","modified_gmt":"2023-02-09T00:49:44","slug":"suspect-in-dallas-zoo-monkey-napping-was-behind-other-animal-disappearances-and-says-hell-do-it-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/suspect-in-dallas-zoo-monkey-napping-was-behind-other-animal-disappearances-and-says-hell-do-it-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Suspect In Dallas Zoo Monkey-Napping Was Behind Other Animal Disappearances, And Says He\u2019ll Do It Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fsuspect-in-dallas-zoo-monkey-napping-was-behind-other-animal-disappearances-and-says-hell-do-it-again%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1840354&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<p>The man charged with stealing a pair of monkeys from the Dallas Zoo is also behind the other animal escapes, and he says he\u2019ll do it again.<\/p>\n<p>According to police affidavits, obtained by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/news\/crime\/2023\/02\/06\/man-jailed-in-dallas-zoo-crimes-plans-to-steal-more-animals-if-released-affidavits-say\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dallas Morning News<\/a>Davion, a 24-year-old suspect, claimed that he was behind at minimum three of the incidents. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/dallas-zoo-monkeys-go-missing-recovered-by-police-latest-in-a-string-of-critter-capers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Four disappearances of animals<\/a> It took place in January. Also, the suspect stated that he will try to take more animals if he is freed. Irvin is being charged with animal cruelty on multiple counts, including stealing the monkeys.<\/p>\n<p>According to police affidavits Irvin was asking questions about the animals at the zoo and how they were moved. \u201cWhere do y\u2019all get the monkeys from and how do y\u2019all shift them around?\u201d According to reports, he asked a zookeeper several questions. The affidavits said that he asked the same questions about the zoo\u2019s tigers.<\/p>\n<p>He asked the same questions to a zookeeper two days before he allegedly took the emperor-tamarins. \u201cWhere can [I] get one and how do y\u2019all get them in at night?\u201d According to the affidavits, Irvin asked a zookeeper for help on January 29. \u201cHow do you catch the birds and where do they go at night?\u201d He said it separately. The affidavits said that he wrote the zookeeper\u2019s answers on a piece of tissue paper.<\/p>\n<p>He asked the same questions to another employee at the langur monkey and clouded leopard exhibits. \u201cHow do you handle them and are they aggressive?\u201d He asked. Despite not being taken, Irvin is accused of severing the enclosure housing the langur monkeys.<\/p>\n<p>Later on, Irvin entered a staff-only area. He was asked to leave and a zoo employee followed Irvin around the zoo till he returned home.<\/p>\n<p>His first attempt at it was on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/here-kitty-kitty-dallas-zoo-calls-escaped-non-dangerous-leopard-a-serious-situation-twitter-users-not-so-much\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">January 13<\/a>. Police reported that Irvin stated to police that he entered zoo with intent to take Nova, the big cat. \u201cbut could only manage to pet it\u201d She leapt to the top and he was there! \u201cunable to retrieve it.\u201d On the night of January 29, he waited till nightfall and then jumped a fence to reach the exhibit for the Emperor Tamarin.<\/p>\n<p>Then he \u201ccut the metal mesh, went through the door, cut the enclosure where the monkeys were in and took them.\u201d He boarded the light rail train that took him to the home vacant, where he was eventually able to recover them.<\/p>\n<p>Irvin also stated to police that he \u201cloved animals,\u201d He stated that he will return to the zoo to steal animals again, if he is freed from jail.<\/p>\n<p>Friday&#8217;s announcement by police stated that they had <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/police-arrest-suspect-in-dallas-zoo-monkey-napping\">Arrest<\/a> Irvin was charged in connection to the disappearances of the emperor-tamarins. The two emperor tamarins, Bella and Finn, were taken early Tuesday morning, but they were returned that day.<\/p>\n<p>Police received a tip via social media that the suspect was being spotted in an abandoned Lancaster house. The house caught the eye of neighbors due to its previous burglary and the fact that animals had been discovered inside.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/news\/crime\/2023\/02\/03\/arrest-made-in-connection-with-2-monkeys-taken-from-dallas-zoo-police-say\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dallas Morning News<\/a>\u00a0reported. The tip was reported to police who found the house unlocked, unoccupied and abandoned. Officers discovered several cats, pigeons and tamarins in the house.<\/p>\n<p>He is\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcdfw.com\/news\/local\/dallas-police-arrest-man-in-connection-with-monkeys-taken-from-dallas-zoo\/3185833\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Charged<\/a>\u00a0He was charged with six counts for animal cruelty, non-livestock. He is currently being held in several bonds amounting to $25,000.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The man charged with stealing a pair of monkeys from the Dallas Zoo is also behind the other animal escapes, and he says he\u2019ll do it again. According to police affidavits obtained by the Dallas Morning News, the suspect, 24-year-old Davion Irvin, said he was behind at least three of the four animal disappearances that &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":189,"featured_media":1830854,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[6025,6262,18084,4479,17558,4230,14834],"class_list":["post-1840354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-animal","tag-dallas","tag-disappearances","tag-hell","tag-monkey-napping","tag-suspect","tag-zoo"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1840354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/189"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1840354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1840354\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1830854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1840354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1840354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1840354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}