Texas influencer who lost monkey after drunk driving crash desperate to get the sick animal back

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Texas influencer who lost monkey after ****** driving ****** desperate to get the ***** animal back

A spider monkey belonging to a Dallas-area influencer had a ******** caused by malnutrition when police took him from his owner over the weekend, officials said.

The monkey, named Jorgie Boy, was taken from his owner, Brandi Botello, on Saturday morning after Dallas police officers responded to a single-vehicle accident. The driver was arrested on a charge of driving while intoxicated, police said in a statement.

Police did not identify the driver in the statement.

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that she was charged with DWI but maintained that she was not driving. She said that at the time of the ******, she was intoxicated and had passed out in the passenger seat holding the nearly 3-year-old spider monkey.

Brandi Botello.

“I didn’t even know what was going on. I slept through the car accident. I didn’t even know we were in an accident,” she told the station. “I wasn’t driving.”

She said she did move into the driver’s seat after the ******.

“I hopped over to the driver’s seat. I didn’t know we crashed in front of the police station. When I turned around there was a cop right there and he was trying to accuse me of driving, but I wasn’t driving,” she said, according to NBC Dallas-Fort Worth.

Botello told the station that the driver was a male acquaintance and that he was charged with public intoxication.

Neither the humans nor the monkey in the car were seriously injured, police said.

Because Botello lives in Irving, a neighboring suburb, the monkey was transferred to Irving’s animal control department, Dallas police said.

Irving police said Thursday that Jorgie Boy was diagnosed with rickets, which they described as “a bone ******** caused by inadequate nutrition.” The police department said he is receiving care at “an undisclosed wildlife sanctuary in Texas.”

Dwan Johns, from the Funky Monkey Ranch, a sanctuary near Fort Worth, Texas, confirmed to NBC News that Jorgie Boy is now in their care.

Johns also confirmed that Jorgie Boy weighed 6 pounds — less than half of an average spider monkey — and that he had tiny fractures in his bones, a metabolic bone ******** caused by poor nutrition, and elevated liver and pancreatic levels.

Johns told NBC News that Jorgie Boy was legally released to her on Saturday from Irving Animal Control. She said local animal controls in cities where owning wild animals is prohibited cannot care for those “wild exotic dangerous animals,” which spider monkeys are classified as, per the ******* States Department of Agriculture.

Johns said the monkey would not be returned to its previous owner, the

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reported.

“I immediately added him to my USDA license here at our ranch. So he is legally here where he will stay,” Johns told NBC News. She explained that because Botello owned Jorgie Boy illegally in a city where spider monkeys are prohibited, the city “could have euthanized without cause.”

“Thankfully we were available to take him in,” Johns said.

It is legal in Texas to

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, including monkeys, with permits, but the city of Irving

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Botello, who has

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, has been reposting followers’ stories with the hashtag “#FreeJorgieBoy.”

On

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, Botello wrote “this ugly depressing lonely feeling I have is the worst” but said she is “not going to stop trying!”

“He means more to me then anything in this world I’m not going to let one little mistake break me I’m willing to change anything and everything for him,” she wrote.

“Being at the wrong place at the wrong time is a real thing,” Botello continued. “I owned up to it … I know I’m a good mom … WE ALL KNOW that!”

Jorgie Boy has an online presence of his own, including an

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with nearly 6,000 followers that includes pictures of

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and

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, who has

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on her back.

Jorgie Boy’s story comes on the heels of that of

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, an

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-famous squirrel that authorities

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after officials got reports that Peanut’s owner was illegally keeping wild animals in his home.

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