By James Carlson
THE Cash-JOURNAL
A vandal or vandals broke into the Topeka Zoo in excess of the weekend for the second time in as countless weeks, this time stealing a golfing cart.
Topeka police officers were identified as at 8:30 a.m. Monday to the southeastern quadrant of the facility exactly where a hole was lower in the exterior chain-website link fence massive plenty of for a person to exit on the golfing cart at a huge velocity, leaving tire tracks.
City spokesman David Bevens reported zoo and city officials have ramped up discussions on enhanced safety.
"We will want to do a thing soon as it is really staying targeted by a person if not a whole lot more men and women," he says.
The break-in marks the second in two weeks and the third considering August. On Could quite possibly 6, somebody or a group of people reduce thru the chain- link perimeter fence by the Gage Shelter Residence and permit a bobcat out of its cage. It was identified within the zoo grounds inside a few several hours. A hole also was cut in the arctic fox enclosure and a toy wagon was thrown in the elephant exhibit for the duration of that incident.
The arctic fox rarely left its cage.
A virtually identical incident occurred previous August, when anyone broke a gate near the shelter residence and permit the bobcat loose.
Bevens claimed authorities are treating Monday's crime as an act of vandalism and burglary.
James Carlson can be reached at (785) 295-1186 or james.carlson@cjonline.com and tweets at twitter.com/carlson_james.
Author: James Carlson
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