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Man Sentenced For Stealing Pet Monkey
King Receives 5-Year Sentence
POSTED: 1:31 pm EDT July 29, 2005
UPDATED: 1:38 pm EDT July 29, 2005
ANNAPOLIS, Md. -- A man who stole a pet capuchin monkey worth was sentenced Thursday to five years in prison.
Kenneth M. King, 25, who pleaded guilty to burglary in the February incident, was also ordered to spend five years on supervised probation.
"You essentially took a member of that family," Anne Arundel County Circuit Judge Michele Dane Jaklitsch said in handing down the sentence.
Brian and Michelle Howard, who own Janey, a white-throated capuchin worth $7,000, said outside the courtroom that their monkey has been frightened since she was returned to them two days after the Feb. 2 break-in.
"She's very clingy," said Brian Howard, who bought the creature as a Christmas gift for his wife. Janey still holds a teddy bear for comfort.
Assistant State's Attorney David P. Ash said King and his girlfriend, Wendy M. Ward, 30, were intrigued by Janey when they went to the Howards' house to by a bird from them. King stole the 3-pound pet because he liked it, and Ward covered for him, Ash said.
After the theft, police received an anonymous tip from someone in Baltimore about a monkey. When they followed up on the tip, they executed a search warrant and recovered Janey, who was identified by her owners.
"You can't hide something like a monkey," said Anne Arundel police spokesman Sgt. Shawn Urbas said at the time
Janey was holding her teddy bear when police found her caged in an upstairs bedroom of King and Ward's home, the Howards said.
"She couldn't handle that cage anymore," Michelle Howard said, so the couple moved Janey in with Nikki, their 8-year-old black wedge-cap capuchin.
The Howards' son, Brian Jr., then 8, was so upset after the break-in that "we couldn't get him to sleep in his own bed for two weeks because he was afraid that these people would come back," Howard said.
In court Thursday, Ward and King apologized to the Howards.
Ward received a one-year suspended sentence and three years of supervised probation. The couple were ordered to pay $2,500 to the Howards for repairs resulting from the break-in.
King Receives 5-Year Sentence
POSTED: 1:31 pm EDT July 29, 2005
UPDATED: 1:38 pm EDT July 29, 2005
ANNAPOLIS, Md. -- A man who stole a pet capuchin monkey worth was sentenced Thursday to five years in prison.
Kenneth M. King, 25, who pleaded guilty to burglary in the February incident, was also ordered to spend five years on supervised probation.
"You essentially took a member of that family," Anne Arundel County Circuit Judge Michele Dane Jaklitsch said in handing down the sentence.
Brian and Michelle Howard, who own Janey, a white-throated capuchin worth $7,000, said outside the courtroom that their monkey has been frightened since she was returned to them two days after the Feb. 2 break-in.
"She's very clingy," said Brian Howard, who bought the creature as a Christmas gift for his wife. Janey still holds a teddy bear for comfort.
Assistant State's Attorney David P. Ash said King and his girlfriend, Wendy M. Ward, 30, were intrigued by Janey when they went to the Howards' house to by a bird from them. King stole the 3-pound pet because he liked it, and Ward covered for him, Ash said.
After the theft, police received an anonymous tip from someone in Baltimore about a monkey. When they followed up on the tip, they executed a search warrant and recovered Janey, who was identified by her owners.
"You can't hide something like a monkey," said Anne Arundel police spokesman Sgt. Shawn Urbas said at the time
Janey was holding her teddy bear when police found her caged in an upstairs bedroom of King and Ward's home, the Howards said.
"She couldn't handle that cage anymore," Michelle Howard said, so the couple moved Janey in with Nikki, their 8-year-old black wedge-cap capuchin.
The Howards' son, Brian Jr., then 8, was so upset after the break-in that "we couldn't get him to sleep in his own bed for two weeks because he was afraid that these people would come back," Howard said.
In court Thursday, Ward and King apologized to the Howards.
Ward received a one-year suspended sentence and three years of supervised probation. The couple were ordered to pay $2,500 to the Howards for repairs resulting from the break-in.
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