Irvin faces six counts of animal cruelty and two counts of burglary after his arrest last week.
Irwin is spotted on surveillance video eating from a bag of Doritos and strolling through the zoo.When cops found monkeys Bella and Finn, they also recovered multiple cats and pigeons, as well as a dead feeder fish and fish food that went missing from a staff-only section of the zoo last month, but was never reported stolen, the affidavits said.
While most of the charges against Irvin are tied to the swiped monkeys, one of the burglary charges is connected to a clouded leopard that he allegedly helped escape from the zoo. Irvin confessed to authorities he wanted to take the leopard, but only got to pet her before she climbed on top of her enclosure, according to an affidavit.
Irvin allegedly asked a series of strange questions to zoo staff before the monkeys went missing, like “Where do y’all get the monkeys from and how do y’all shift them around,” the affidavit states, according to the Dallas Morning News.
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