Monkey burglar exposed after Texas crime spree
The mystery of a spate of random burglaries at a garden centre in Texas has finally been solved after a monkey was caught on CCTV stealing plants and garden ornaments.
Shelley Rosenfeld, the owner of Plants and Planters in Richardson, Texas, had the cameras installed following the thefts and was stunned when the store’s general manager played back the footage the next time items went missing and spotted the animal passing its spoils to a human accomplice on the other side of the fence.
“You really aren’t going to believe this and I know you’re going to think I am crazy, but there is a monkey on this video,” the store manager told Rosenfeld, according to local news channel WFAA.
Police say the monkey made off with around 40 plants, flowers and ornaments in the raid.
“It didn’t even make sense to me because the kind of things were stolen were so random,” said Rosenfeld. “It was the kind of things kids would do. But this was definitely a monkey.”
Rosenfeld has asked police not to pursue the case – but fears the unlikely crime duo could strike again.
“I don’t want to hurt this monkey,” she said, “but I’d like to hurt the person that trained the monkey. I think they could make this monkey much do worse than what it’s doing now.”
