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One of the most important tools to use during an investigation is the "Open Records" requests from County, City, or State agencies (Federal requests are called FOIA - Freedom of Information Act).
This month open records request, from the Texas Parks and Wildlife, revealed the pseudo-sanctuary possessed an Education Permit. This permit allows the sanctuary to possess certain protected Texas animals. In this case, the pseudo-sanctuary's original permit for the period of 2006 - 2009, stated it possessed 1 jaguar, 1 coati, and 25 black bears.
The TP&W game warden visited the pseudo-sanctuary to check on the animals and discovered the last jaguar was dead, there was no coati, and the bear population dropped to 17 animals. An internal report showed 3 bears died form Aug 2004 - 2006. So where are the remaining bears? What happened to the jag? Where is the coati? So many questions and no answers are forthcoming--oh my...
