Bizarre details emerge after the Dallas “monkey thief” was arrested at the aquarium and charged with a series of strange incidents at the zoo

THE man who allegedly stole monkeys from Dallas Zoo has been arrested and charged after the animals were discovered in a vacant home.

Davion Irvin, 24, was arrested Thursday night and sent to the Dallas Jail.

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Police received a tip that Irvin was at the Dallas World Aquarium on Thursday.

Aquarium employee Paula Carlson noticed Irvin and recognized him.

“Looked almost exactly like the person I saw online,” Carlson told FOX4.

Carlson struck up a conversation with Irvin as he walked through the aquarium.

“He asked me questions about the animals and I answered them, you know, I showed him the animals, the shark, the octopus. I was just trying to keep a conversation going while I was texting with our security guys here,” she told the outlet.

Carlson then contacted the Dallas Zoo, who called the police.

Irvin was then stopped by officers boarding a train and taken away for questioning.

He has since been charged with six animal cruelty charges, reports FOX4, as well as burglary – one of which was linked to the leopard’s escape last month.

Irvin has not been charged in connection with two other incidents at the zoo – involving the habitat of the langur monkeys and the death of a vulture – both of which are still under investigation.

However, police told FOX4 that additional charges could be coming.

“There have been some isolated incidents like this in individual animals. Maybe they were taken from a zoo, but no repeat incident like this. This is truly and truly unprecedented,” Dallas Zoo CEO and President Gregg Hudson told the outlet.

The two tamarin monkeys disappeared from the zoo on Monday.

Dallas police located the two missing tamarin monkeys on Jan. 31, according to a tweet from the department.

The Dallas Zoo said the two monkeys showed no signs of injury and were being evaluated by their veterinarians and animal care teams.

“Both began eating and drinking almost immediately after the team completed health screenings on Tuesday,” the zoo said in a tweet.

“They won’t be returning to the habitat for a while – since they’ve been taken off the premises, they’ll have to go through a quarantine period before being reintroduced into their zoo habitat.”

In another update, the zoo said a tip had led to the missing monkeys being recovered.

The animals were reported missing in a series of bizarre disappearances on Monday.

The Dallas Zoo told FOX4 that Irvin never worked there.