Houston police arrest alleged murder suspect who fled with tiger; animal still missing Theresa Braine
A murder suspect seen absconding with a tiger has been arrested, but the fat cat is still on the lam.
Police on Monday evening arrested Victor Hugo Cuevas, 26, at his parents house in Richmond, Texas, just outside Houston after he was seen fleeing with a tiger that had been roaming a Houston neighborhood. He was charged with evading arrest, a felony, and his bail for a murder charge was revoked.
His attorney said Cuevas had been planning to surrender.
“Victor Hugo Cuevas is in custody,” the Houston Police Department tweeted. “The whereabouts of the tiger are not yet known.”
Houston s roaming tiger still missing, Carole Baskin from Tiger King responds
Police arrest alleged owner of tiger seen walking streets of Houston
The attorney for 26-year-old Victor Cuevas says his client doesn t own the tiger and has no idea where it is.
HOUSTON - Video of a tiger seen roaming a Houston neighborhood has gained national attention.
On Monday, Carole Baskin and her husband Howard spoke with FOX 26 about the incident. The Baskins are known animal rights activists famous from the 2020 Netflix series Tiger King. It’s no surprise, said Carole Baskin. It just keeps happening. Clearly, this cat was wandering around because they left it unattended. They probably thought the backyard fence was high enough, and didn’t realize the cat could hop it like that.
Owner of tiger spotted in west Houston neighborhood arrested
By FOX 26 Staff
Police arrest alleged owner of tiger seen walking streets of Houston
The attorney for 26-year-old Victor Cuevas says his client doesn t own the tiger and has no idea where it is.
HOUSTON - Police say the owner of a tiger seen walking around in west Houston, Victor Hugo Cuevas was arrested in Fort Bend County. His attorney says he was going to turn himself in this evening at the Harris County Jail.
His attorney tells FOX 26 the roaming tiger is not his client’s and he doesn’t know where the tiger is now.
By Max
May 11, 2021
A tiger was loose in a neighborhood in Houston. Yeah, an actual tiger was just walking around on the street. There s even a
video of an off-duty cop who lives in the area pointing a gun at the tiger and telling its owner to get it back inside.
So who is the owner? He s a 28-year-old guy named Victor Cuevas. And he doesn t just have a tiger . . . he s also a MURDER SUSPECT who s out on bond. He shot and killed a guy in 2017 . . . he says it was self-defense, but he s facing murder charges.
Anyway, when the off-duty cop called for backup, Victor put his tiger into his white Jeep Cherokee and drove off. They were on the run until Victor was caught yesterday and he was hit with a felony charge for evading arrest. The tiger is MIA.
Loose tiger could be around corner unless laws change, PETA says KTRK
Some quick facts:
About a century ago, 50,000 - 80,000 tigers roamed India alone.
Tigers are classified as endangered. It s estimated that only 3,500 tigers remain in the wild worldwide.
Experts say there may never be as many tigers as there were a century ago.
Tigers are not native to North America but are found in Bangladesh, Vietnam, Cambodia, India, Thailand, Indonesia, Laos, China, Malaysia, Russia, Nepal and Myanmar, according to the World Wildlife Fund.
As TigerGate and Tiger in Houston trended on Twitter, people wanted to know, how did this happen? Another question that popped up often was regarding the laws surrounding ownership of exotic animals in Texas, especially since this is far from the first time a tiger has gotten loose.