Theft of endangered tortoise at Live Turtle & Tortoise Museum caught on camera
October 18, 2013 - 1:01am
By: Nur Shereen Ibrahim
They came early on Saturday and waited outside the Live Turtle & Tortoise Museum like eager visitors.
When the museum inside the Chinese Garden opened at 9am, the men went to the front desk and demanded to adopt a tortoise.
They claimed that the museum’s website stated that visitors were able to do so, even though it did not. When they were rejected, they paid the entry fee and went into the museum.
Before they left at 9.35am, the men allegedly stolen an endangered Indian star tortoise, which is estimated to cost about $2,000.
The theft - the fourth such case in the museum since 2006 - was caught on the museum’s closed-circuit television and footage has been handed over to the police.
Read the full report in The New Paper on Friday (Oct 18).
