Dallas Police are asking for help identifying a man they say they want to speak with about the disappearance of two animals from the Dallas Zoo.
Two emperor tamarin monkeys were reported missing Monday afternoon and the zoo said there was clear evidence the animals' habitats had been tampered with and that the animals may have been taken.
The monkeys were found early Tuesday evening at a home in Lancaster, Dallas Zoo officials said. The monkeys were to be taken back to the zoo to be evaluated by veterinarians.
The department released a photograph Tuesday morning of a Black man who was recorded on video while walking through the zoo while wearing a winter hat, blue hoodie, dark pants and blue athletic shoes. The man was also eating from a bag of Doritos.
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Detectives said they want to speak with the man "in regard to the two tamarin monkeys missing from the Dallas Zoo," but offered no other information about the man, when the video was recorded, or what led them to identify him as a person of interest in the case.
Dallas Police also did not say if the man was going to be questioned about three other incidents at the zoo, including the suspicious death of an endangered vulture, a damaged monkey habitat and the escape of a clouded leopard.
Anyone with information on the pictured individual, or in the case is asked to call Detective Edwin Saracay at 214-671-4509 or at Edwin.saracay@dallaspolice.gov.
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