The male that was taken into custody after leaving a neighbourhood of West Houston with a tiger has posted bond and left prison, yet the location of the large cat continue to be unknown.
Victor Cuevas was released at around 2.40 pm on Wednesday. He was hung on a $50,000 bond for an unconnected warrant in connection to a 2017 murder fee stemming from an occurrence near his family members house in Richmond, southwest of Houston, KTRK reported.
When it comes to the tiger, Mr Cuevas has actually been billed with averting arrest. In numerous video clips uploaded of the animal, Mr Cuevas can be seen relocating the tiger back into his home. Houston Police say he later placed the animal right into a white vehicle and also took off, with the authorities losing him after a short quest.
Following his arrest, Mr Cuevas’s attorney Michael Elliott firmly insists that his client is not the proprietor of the large pet cat. “I want help searching for India,” Mr Elliott claimed on Tuesday, describing the male tiger.
He included that they “are both extremely nervous and expecting doing everything we can do to find” the pet.
” The cops saw my client go out in the yard and retrieve the tiger and they’ve thought he’s done a great deal of different things that he necessarily has not done and also blameless of, similar to they assumed that the tiger is his. It naturally is not,” Mr Elliott informed press reporters during an interview.
The lawyer declares that the owner of the nine-month-old tiger is a guy nicknamed “D” that has texted “death risks” to Mr Cuevas.
Mr Elliott declared that it’s unlikely that cops would have lost Mr Cuevas after providing chase.
” This is Houston, Harris County,” the legal representative said. “They have police in every corner, Motorola radios, Fox helicopter in the air. Exactly how commonly do you see individuals running in an SUV that doesn’t get captured? Something doesn’t match up below.”
Mr Cuevas is not billed with anything particularly associating with “India”. While it’s legal to have a tiger in the state of Texas, it’s prohibited to do so with the city restrictions of Houston.
Mr Cuevas’s Instagram feeds earlier illustrate him cuddling a child bear, 2 monkeys, as well as a tiger. His legal representative claimed that even if a tiger showed up on his social media sites, it doesn’t imply he owns one.
Houston Police called Mr Elliott’s variation of events “clashing” but they really did not go further in their remarks, KTRK reported.
According to the Fort Bend County Sheriffs Office, Mr Cuevas was booked right into the Fort Bend County Jail 4 various other times for violating his bond stemming from the 2017 murder fee.
Wesley Wittig, the exec aide for the Fort Bend County District Attorney’s Office, informed KPRC: “He is entitled to bond, that’s why he was offered one as well as he’s entitled to make it.”
But Mr Wittig also told the regional TV station that his workplace submitted an activity on Tuesday to withdraw Mr Cuevas’s bond.
” Our office submitted a movement to withdraw his bond on our situation, the murder situation, and also the judge has not provided that activity yet, but rather, set it for a hearing on Friday,” he stated.
Houston resident Jose Ramos saw the tiger outside his residence on Sunday. “I needed to squeeze myself,” he told CNN. “Was this real?” He went outside to obtain a better look. “It appeared a bit skittish. He was making complete eye contact with me,” he added.
An off-duty officer reached the scene after seeing photos of the tiger on the area e-mail online forum, published by Mr Ramos. The police officer had his weapon aimed at the tiger when Mr Cuevas came out of his home, asking the policeman to not harm the pet. Mr Ramos stated he “seemed extremely stressed out, really uneasy by the simple fact that the deputy was aiming at the tiger and ready to fire him”.