Criminal Justice
Accused Monkey Thief Tracked Down through MySpace Page
Posted Sep 24, 2008, 07:18 am CST
By Debra Cassens Weiss
Life as a fugitive from justice ended for an accused monkey thief after he posted his phone number and a partial new address to his MySpace page.
Steven Labore had been charged in Pennsylvania with stealing two monkeys with a friend from the Wild World of Animals, the Washington Post reports. Prosecutors contend the caper began when the pair went to the animal park in a search for marijuana. Finding none, they decided to steal the monkeys instead, according to Chad Schneider, an assistant district attorney in western Pennsylvania.
Labore became a suspect after his mother called Wild World of Animals and said she wanted to return two monkeys. He fled Pennsylvania after his arrest but turned up in Maryland because of Schneider’s enterprising Internet search on MySpace.
"I just punched it in," Schneider told the Post. "He had his phone number and his address, so I figured I'd go get him."
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