Indianapolis police has captured cheeky monkey

 Momo the monkey’s taste of freedom is over.

The primate spurred an hourslong seek on Indianapolis’ east facet after he escaped Wednesday evening from his owner’s belongings. but the male patas monkey changed into subsequently captured appropriately Thursday morning, police said.

Momo became captured by means of the brother of the monkey’s proprietor after police tracked the primate to the toilet of a house beneath construction, said Lt. William Carter of the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police branch.

Carter stated police had been called to the city’s east side approximately 6 p.m. Wednesday on a record of “an competitive animal” that grew to become out to be the monkey at the run.

After his capture, Momo become taken into the care of Indianapolis’ Animal Care offerings, which turned him over to personnel at the Indianapolis Zoo for now, stated Katie Trennepohl, deputy director of Indianapolis Animal Care offerings.

at the same time as a permit isn't required in Marion County to personal such an animal, she stated Momo will continue to be held underneath the advice of the county’s prosecutor’s workplace, to be able to work with Animal Care services to determine whether Momo may be lower back to his owner.

Trennepohl said Animal Care services had “treated Momo a further time” whilst he had escaped in July.

final night time, after Momo escaped again, she said his proprietor turned into issued a a citation due to the fact the monkey changed into “chasing and drawing close in an hazardous style” even as on the run in a residential vicinity.

She said that absolutely everyone who had direct touch with Momo at some stage in his time at the lam have to contact the neighborhood health branch due to a subject about “diseases that can be transmitted to human beings.”