Deputies capture "Mud Monkey"

BRADDOCK, TX - Authorities captured a diaper-wearing monkey who led them on a downtown search after biting a woman.

The woman, identified as Jaqueline Thehut, was walking by An Inconvenient Cafe, a popular Braddock nightclub, where Rev. Dr. Curtis Eldorado Lowe had the monkey on a leash inside its beer garden. People walking by were petting the monkey, who was wearing a white diaper (though the diaper had a large yellow spot in the front and an even larger brown spot in the back). The monkey is named "Mud Monkey" and is sometimes featured with Lowe on Braddock based WNWA programming. The woman reported being bitten on the thumb as she tried to pet the animal Wednesday.

Mud Monkey bit the woman around 1 a.m., then ran off, deputies said. At noon today, Sheriff Fenton Washburn said the monkey was still on the lam. "Rev. Dr. Lowe was in the beer garden at An Inconvenient Cafe letting women pet his monkey," Washburn said, adding that when the victim attempted to do so, it bit her.

She suffered four puncture marks to her thumb, two on the top and two on the bottom.
Police today were able to contact the Lowe, who lives in a second-story apartment in the Happy Hill Gardens federal housing project.

The bite sent the woman to Ewing Memorial Hospital, where a physician said the monkey should be found so that it could be quarantined to determine if it has a disease. The monkey was captured and taken into custody downtown to be quarantined for 10 days, police said.

Deputies initally issued a warning to the public of the large monkey with a long prehensile tail: "It is now on the lam, presumably still in the Marchetta Avenue area."