Arrest Made in Disturbing Monkey Business at Dallas Zoo

DALLAS – Dallas Police have made an arrest in a series of thefts and vandalism at the Dallas Zoo after a Clouded Leopard escaped from a cage and two monkeys were stolen.  

According to reports, a 24-year-old man who police had been searching for in connection to emperor tamarin monkeys that went missing from the Dallas Zoo was in custody Friday after his arrest, Dallas police said.

Police identified the man as Davion Irvin, who was taken into custody Thursday in Dallas, two days after the monkeys were found in an empty house that belongs to a church in Lancaster. Irving was in the Dallas County Jail on Friday and he faces six charges in the case involving the monkeys.

Dallas police said Irvin was under investigation in a case involving the clouded leopard that disappeared about three weeks ago after its cage was cut at the Dallas Zoo. The leopard was eventually found not far from its cage. And Irvin also is under investigation related to a vulture at the zoo which was found dead with what appeared to be a stab wound at the same time some fish and other items were believed to have been stolen from the zoo, according to WFAA-TV.

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