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`I Just Want Her Back Home': Pet Owner Offering
Reward For Finding Missing Monkey
By IPau,ulleen ILe April 6, 2022 at 6:34 pm Filed Under: Il.ocall TV, Maliplleweod IMews, IPaGulleen ILe
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MAPLEWOOD, Minn. (WCCO) — A local pet owner is asking for
help to find her missing capuchin monkey.
The nearly 2-year-old monkey's name is Coco Chanel, and her
owner, Zaurice Steward, says she disappeared Tuesday night,
possibly from the parking lot at the Cub Foods in Maplewood.
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Steward is offering a $3,000 cash reward for Coco's safe return.
"I just want her back home," Steward said. "I just feel like I lost my
child."
At about 8:45 p.m. Tuesday, Steward said she got a Facebook
message from a family member telling her Coco disappeared.
"She literally wrote and said,'OMG Coco is missing,"' Steward
explained.
The family member told Steward she had stopped by the Cub Foods
off White Bear Avenue in Maplewood. Coco and her pink carrier
were still in the back seat of her car. When she came out, both were
nowhere to be seen.
Steward tried searching and she also filed a police report.
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"Very strange," said Lt. Joe Steiner of the Maplewood Police
Department. "Theft from auto isn't strange, but theft of a capuchin
monkey from a motor vehicle is strange."
Steiner said it's also an unusual case because having capuchin
monkeys as pets is illegal in Minnesota. Steward says Coco normally
stays with other family across the border in Wisconsin, where they
are legal.
"I'm scared that the wrong person has Coco," Steward said. "I just
want to make sure she's OK."
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For now, Maplewood police are searching for surveillance video and
witnesses. Steward is hopeful for some good news soon.
"I just want to find her and get her back safe," Steward said. "I don't
care what I have to pay. I don't care what I have to do. I just want her
back safe'
Maplewood police is asking anyone with information to give them a
call at 651-777-8191
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Steward is currently taking donations to grow the reward money. If
you'd like to help, you can donate to her on the Cash App at
$melaninbeautybyz.
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