This is one of those stories that you might not believe without evidence.

Thanks to the internet, there is plenty of video evidence that shows a tiger was indeed prowling loose in an upscale neighborhood in Houston, Texas.

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Houston police are actively looking for a man who they believe owns what authorities are describing as a Bengal tiger that was seen wandering in the front yard of a home in a residential neighborhood.

Houston police Commander Ron Borza said during a May 10, 2021, news conference  that he couldn’t yet name the suspect in the incident because the man hasn’t yet been formally charged with a crime, but he expected the suspect will be charged with evading police.

However on May 11, police announced they had arrested Victor Hugo Cuevas, 26, on the charge of evading arrest. The whereabouts of the tiger, as of this writing, aren’t known. An attorney for Cuevas told a local news station that he isn’t the owner of the tiger.

Cuevas was is out on bond for murder charges in a November 2020 case out of Fort Bend County, Texas, Borza said.

Borza said Houston police responded to calls about a tiger in the front yard of a home on Ivy Wall Drive on May 9 at about 8 p.m. Widely seen cell phone video posted to social media shows a man pointing a gun at the tiger, but he didn’t open fire. Borza said that man was an off-duty police officer.

Borza stated that Cuevas had taken the animal inside the home, but when Houston police showed up, he put it in a white Jeep Cherokee with paper license plates and drove off. Police pursued briefly, but lost sight of the vehicle.

The city of Houston has an ordinance banning members of the public from owning wild animal considered dangerous to humans. Borza said owning a tiger violates the city code and is a misdemeanor.

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