Twenty Years Ago - 2005
September 14, 2005
Bowie County Sheriff’s deputies and the Hooks Police Department were startled Monday morning to find a four-month old tiger cub wandering the right-of-way along I-30. Deputy George Huggins, who was one of the officers who caught the tiger, said the sheriff’s department was dubious when it began to get calls from people saying a tiger was walking along the highway. But that’s exactly what they found - a male tiger cub with a collar on near the Leary exit. The Tiger Creek WIldlife Refuge in Tyler, Texas picked up the cub Monday evening.
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