
Other residents say they had never seen big cat before
Saturday, October 4, 2003 Posted: 9:13 PM EDT (0113 GMT)

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| NEW YORK (CNN) -- Police sedated and removed a two-year-old, 400-pound Bengal tiger Saturday evening that was living surreptitiously in an Harlem apartment building -- only to find a 3-foot-long, 280-pound caiman, a crocodile-like creature, in the same apartment. The 21-story building was evacuated Saturday after the discovery of the tiger. By early evening, the big cat had been sedated with tranquilizer darts, removed from the building, and placed in a big cage. Police then found the caiman and removed it as well. Antoine Yates, the apartment's tenant and the owner of the animals, showed up at a hospital Friday night after having been mauled, New York Police Commissioner Ray Kelly said. continued... |