The owners of the Dallas Zoo property where the monkeys were found are looking for answers

DALLAS (CBSDFW.COM) – CBS 11 learned more about how the two monkeys were found, who were taken from the Dallas Zoo on Monday.

As we reported, the police received a tip that led them to a house on Jerry Way in Lancaster. Those who own the property say that’s not all.

After Dallas Police released a photo of a man hoping to talk to him about two emperor tamarins missing from the Dallas Zoo, “Someone actually spotted a man who was on the news and they turned him on and said they spotted that man.” there was someone from our church district,” said Tonya Thomas.

Her father is the pastor of God in Christ Family Center in Lancaster.

She said monkeys were found in the closet in their public house, which the police called an abandoned house.

She said the reason some of the windows are boarded up is because there was another break-in just before the holidays, during which the animals were also found.

“Nothing like a zoo or anything, but there were a few animals there,” she said. “Cats, birds, chickens, pigeons, and the like.”

During the investigation, the police said the man in the photo they released was not a suspect.

The monkey incident is the fourth incident at the Dallas Zoo in recent weeks. According to the zoo, on January 13, a clouded leopard named Nova was deliberately released from its habitat through a cut hole — a hole similar to that found shortly after in a monkey habitat. That evening, Nova was found sleeping in a tree.

The day after Nova was reported missing, zoo officials found a cut in the enclosure where the langurs lived, but no one escaped.

Ten days after Nova was released and then found, someone killed an endangered white-headed vulture named Pin.

A zoo spokesman says they have brought in security experts who have come up with new strategies, such as adding more cameras and fences, and more than doubling security patrols and increasing night staff.

“We are just happy that the monkeys at the zoo are safe and we just want the burglars to stop at our church because they completely destroyed the public house from the inside,” Thomas said.

Thomas says they will have to spend a lot of money to fix this and they hope to have more answers soon.

The Dallas Zoo has increased reward to $25,000 for information leading to arrest in these incidents. Anyone with information is asked to contact DPD.