The board acknowledged that revoking the permit, retaining the bond and fining Tsuchiya was all that it had authority to do. The board, acting on staff recommendations based on an investigation, voted unanimously yesterday to dismiss the complaint and not hold a contested-case hearing, a trial-like proceeding. His permit for the monkey was revoked and he was forced to forfeit the $1,000 bond he had for the monkey.īut animal-rights activists complained to the state Board of Agriculture, asking for an investigation and the revocation of the permits for the three other squirrel monkeys still on display at the bar in their soundproof, climate-controlled enclosure. 8 and fined $200 for failing to comply with bond conditions required for possessing a nonhuman primate. Nightclub co-owner Darren Tsuchiya had sold the young, male monkey to a man who did not have the proper state permit or bond to own a restricted animal. By Sally month, a SWAT team raided a Makiki house to recover a 2-year-old squirrel monkey transferred from an aquarium-style display behind the bar at the Blue Tropix Restaurant & Nightclub.
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