On Sunday break of day , someone took 13 tortoises , seven skirt , seven ring - tag lemurs , five marmoset , and four scamp from the We Care Wildlife Sanctuary in Miami , loaded all the animals into a truck , and drove off .
But Miami - Dade officials are deal the incident as a theft and believe it could have been be after out , since the wrongdoer only took animals that have a high value to animal dealers . According tolocal intelligence outlet WSVN , the animals are worth more than $ 53,000 .
The Miami - Dade police section did not instantly answer to a Gizmodo request for input on the investigating .
“ They ’d have had to chase the beast around and nett them , and put them in cages , and that puts them under even more stress . We have a tortoise that ’s on antibiotics for a moth-eaten and involve needs injection every three days , ” We give care volunteer Cindy Robert told The Guardian , impart that a stolen umbrella cockatoo must be prey soaked intellectual nourishment or it wo n’t consume and will crave .
Robert is especially concerned since the animals were already stressed from a recent move to a new larger facility — heel counter to the fake advertizing call that the sanctuary was close down .
She told The Guardian that the We Care Facebook Sir Frederick Handley Page was whoop last week and suspect the Craigslist ad could be connected to that incident . Roberts also distrust the transgressor experience the new location was under construction and that surveillance had not been go down up . They simply removed a deadbolt to open a fence and get in , Roberts narrate news show retail store .
“ Please , just get them back , ” Robert told WSVN , “ ‘ do they need to be good and cared for by rights . ”
Update 03/08/18 : The Guardiannow reportsthat the owner of the sanctuary has been arrested and charge with incorrectly reporting a crime . grant to the newspaper , authorities say possessor Josue Santiago staged the time out - in and took the animal to a asylum in North Carolina . The text of this post has been update to reflect this new information .
[ The Guardian / WSVN ]
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