SAN LUIS OBISPO, Calif. — Cops usually have a prime suspect. In this circumstance it truly is a primate suspect.

The San Luis Obispo County Sheriff’s Workplace thinks it was a minor Capuchin monkey that named 911 from a zoo previous Saturday evening.

The get in touch with disconnected and dispatchers tried to get in touch with and text back but there was no reaction, so deputies were being despatched to look into, the business office said in a social media submit.

The address turned out to be the Zoo to You close to Paso Robles, but the deputies identified that no a person there built the connect with.

They at last deduced that a Capuchin monkey named Route experienced seemingly picked up the zoo’s cellphone, which was in a golfing cart used to transfer about the home.

“We’re instructed Capuchin monkeys are incredibly inquisitive and will get everything and almost everything and just start pushing buttons,” the office’s article claimed.