CJ the Chimp Escapes Into Neighborhood Again

A pet chimpanzee escaped from her enclosure for the second time in a month, prompting officials to remove her from her Las Vegas neighborhood home.The first time CJ escaped her enclosure was in July, when she and fellow adult chimp Buddy roamed the neighborhood, Take Photo Animatronic Dinosaur-Cartoon Model banging on cars and terrorizing neighbors. When Buddy tried to leave the police perimeter and walk into a crowd of onlookers, Sgt.

Andrew Legrow shot and killed him, according to a Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department press release. Legrow not Dinosaur Model-Iguanodon Be Attacked has been on the force for 27 years. DeRosa said she suspects someone else may have opened the cage because July's incident prompted a political discussion about banning exotic animals as pets."We have gotten calls that people want to let CJ out so they can pass the law in Las Vegas, and I just hope to God that nobody tampered with the cage," DeRosa told KTNV.

County commissioners altered their policy on exotic animal ownership on Aug. 7, adding a requirement that permits for wild animals be renewed, regular inspections of animal enclosures and better neighbor notification, according to the Las Vegas Review-Journal. They also require that the property owner own the animal. DeRosa owns CJ, but the chimp was kept in an enclosure on property owned by Sheri and David Potochan.