Dallas man arrested in case of monkeys missing from zoo plagued by incidents

Davion Irvin, 24, charged with six counts of animal cruelty after two of zoo's emperor tamarin monkeys found in abandoned home

An arrest has been made in the case of the missing monkeys apparently abducted from the Dallas zoo, whose shock disappearance was the latest in a series of incidents to affect the zoo's animal inhabitants.

Davion Irvin, 24, was arrested on Thursday night and charged with six counts of animal cruelty. The move could mark a breakthrough in a mysterious case which has created headlines across the US as the zoo struggled to explain how or why it was being targeted.