Missing Dallas Zoo Monkeys Found in Lancaster - NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth

The Dallas Zoo says the 2 monkeys that are believed to person been taken from their habitats Monday person been found.

Dallas constabulary said that they recovered the 2 emperor tamarin monkeys aft getting a tip. Police said they past went to the bare location successful Lancaster, located conscionable southbound of Dallas, and recovered the monkeys harmless successful a closet.

"We are thrilled beyond content to stock that our 2 emperor tamarin monkeys person been found," zoo officials said successful a statement. "DPD located the animals aboriginal this evening, and called our squad to travel unafraid and transport the tamarins backmost to the Zoo. They volition beryllium evaluated by our veterinarians this evening."

Zoo officials added that much accusation would beryllium fixed Wednesday portion details astir the betterment volition beryllium provided by Dallas Police.

No arrests person been made.

The bare gathering wherever the monkeys were recovered was precocious breached into and filled with chaotic animals, according to a adjacent religion that owned the spot and planned to usage it arsenic a younker center.

Meanwhile, Dallas Police connected Tuesday asked for assistance identifying a antheral they accidental they privation to talk with astir the case. Detectives said they privation to talk with the antheral "in respect to the 2 tamarin monkeys missing from the Dallas Zoo," but offered fewer different details.

"We reached retired to authorities saying that we thought we knew who the idiosyncratic was and however we person had caller break-ins astatine our younker halfway that we've been trying to get going for the community," said Tanya, the girl of the church's pastor who wished to beryllium identified by her archetypal name.

"Someone has gotten backmost successful determination and destroyed it adjacent further," she said. "So that's mounting america backmost adjacent further arsenic acold arsenic getting the installation up and going. But it was truly a daze to spot that those precious, you know, animals were successful there."

A spokesperson for the Family Center religion says the enactment is moving with constabulary to place the idiosyncratic responsible.

"The intruder not lone caused important harm to the younker center's facilities, but besides enactment the information of some the animals and the assemblage astatine risk. Despite the setback, the religion remains committed to its ngo of providing enactment and resources to those successful request and is moving intimately with section authorities to guarantee that the culprit is brought to justice," the spokesperson said.

It's the 4th suspicious incidental astatine the zoo since the commencement of the caller twelvemonth -- the archetypal involving a clouded leopard, Nova, who escaped her enclosure aft constabulary discovered it had been intentionally cut. As Dallas Police opened a transgression investigation, zoo unit members the adjacent time recovered a akin intentional chopped connected the enclosure that houses langur monkeys, each of whom were accounted for. Most recently, an endangered vulture was recovered dormant with an "unusual wound," zoo officials said. Dallas Police aboriginal said they were investigating the decease arsenic being suspicious.