At least 37 wild monkeys held in captivity by a drug addict in a south China city were rescued by the police when they raided his home.
Dongxing city Police in Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region received a phone call from a woman, who told them her husband was with his mistress and taking drugs.
When police arrived at the scene, Jiang, who is reportedly engaged in trading wild animals, was armed with a knife. Police took him into custody and seized several grams of ice.
While they were searching the house, they were drawn to an unusual smell coming from a utility room. Upon checking, they found 37 monkeys including 20 A-class protected slow lorises and 17 B-class protected macaques.
A police officer told the state-run Xinhua news agency that the monkeys were listless as a result of being held in captivity for a long period of time, and many had scars on their bodies. They also found dead monkeys in the trash.
Jiang said he knew nothing about the monkeys but police discovered several notebooks with sales records of wild animals, which allegedly show that the monkeys were mostly sold to Anhui in east China and Liaoning in the northeast, for several thousand yuan each.
