It turns out there have been many Tiger kings over the years. Houston made headlines this week after a tiger was found wandering a suburban neighborhood where it came face-to-face with an armed deputy before a man put the animal in the back seat of a white Jeep Cherokee and fled the scene. But nearly 20 years ago, an even more bizarre scene unfolded in a Harlem housing project. On Oct. 3, 2003, police discovered a 400-pound Siberian-Bengal tiger named Ming living in the Drew-Hamilton Houses. Its owner, Antoine Yates, had purchased the tiger three years earlier from a wild animal dealer. Yates was being treated at the hospital for bite wounds he claimed were from a dog – but doctors suspected it was from something much bigger.