Tag Archives: Tiger King

Appeals Court Upholds 21-Year Sentence For Joe Exotic

Law & Crime reports: The zookeeper turned convicted would-be hitman who was launched into the national spotlight during a 2020 streaming series about big cat breeding will not be able to reduce his decades-long prison sentence. Joe Exotic — real name Joseph Maldonado-Passage — had hoped to get his 21-year prison sentence knocked down by 10 years following a recalculation …

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Joe Exotic Pleads For Release After Cancer Diagnosis

The New York Daily News reports: Zookeeper Joe Exotic, currently sitting behind bars for a murder-for-hire plot gone wrong, said Wednesday night that he has been diagnosed with “aggressive” prostate cancer. “It is with a sad face that I have to tell you the doctors called me in today to break the news that my prostate biopsy came back with …

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Feds Seize 68 Big Cats From Infamous “Tiger King Park”

Via press release from the Justice Department: The United States has seized 68 protected lions, tigers, lion-tiger hybrids, and a jaguar from Jeffrey and Lauren Lowe’s Tiger King Park in Thackerville, Oklahoma, pursuant to a judicially-authorized search and seizure warrant, for ongoing Endangered Species Act (ESA) violations. The Justice Department will seek civil forfeiture of these animals and any offspring …

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