CHIBA, (Japan): Two US nationals were each fined ¥300,000 after they were arrested on a misdemeanor for allegedly trespassing in a monkey enclosure at Ichikawa City Zoo.
Chiba Local Prosecutors Office filed a summary indictment against a 24-year-old university student and a 27-year-old company executive at the Chiba Summary Court on Friday (June 5).
The two allegedly trespassed into the enclosure, where internet sensation Punch and other monkeys are kept, and also disrupted the zoo’s businesses on May 17.
Punch became famous around the world for clinging to a large stuffed orangutan as if it were his mother and trying hard to blend in with the group.
The summary court imposed the fines on the two on Friday, and both paid them the same day. - The Yomiuri Shimbun
