Por NEAL PUTNAM<\/p>\n
An arrest warrant remains outstanding for a man suspected of child endangerment and trespassing into an elephant enclosure at the San Diego Zoo because he failed to show up in court as he promised.<\/p>\n
Jose Manuel Navarrete, 26, was seen with his 2-year-old daughter as he was trying to take a photo inside the elephant enclosure on March 19, 2021.<\/p>\n
He posted $100,000 bond and made all his court appearances, but missed a hearing in Jan. 2022.<\/p>\n
His attorney told San Diego Superior Court Judge Robert Trentacosta she had not spoken with him recently, so the judge issued the warrant for his arrest.<\/p>\n
As of Feb. 28\u2014almost a month and a half later\u2014the warrant is still outstanding, according to the District Attorney\u2019s office.<\/p>\n
\u201cA warrant in the amount of $150,000 was issued at that time,\u201d said Deputy District Attorney Bree Garcia.<\/p>\n
\u201cOur records indicate he is still at warrant and there are no future dates at this time,\u201d said Garcia.<\/p>\n
Navarrete lived in Fullerton, Ca. and court records say he was to have \u201cno negative contact\u201d with his 2-year-old daughter, whom he accidently dropped when the elephant briefly charged at him.<\/p>\n
Witnesses said Navarrete was apparently trying to take a picture and had his back to an elephant, which appeared to grow agitated at his appearance inside the enclosure.<\/p>\n
Zoo tourists began yelling at Navarrete to leave the enclosure which he did. They also took video, which was shown on television newscasts.<\/p>\n
Navarrete had pleaded not guilty. He has not had a preliminary hearing yet.<\/p>\n
San Diego Police officers were called to the zoo by the zoo itself and Navarrete was arrested without incident. Police said the man \u201cwanted to take a photo with the African bull elephant.\u201d<\/p>\n
The zoo said the elephant habitat \u201cis home to our Asian and African elephants.\u201d They said the man went through \u201cmultiple barriers, purposely and illegally trespassed into a habitat\u201d around 4:20 p.m., according to their press release.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
By NEAL PUTNAM An arrest warrant remains outstanding for a man suspected of child endangerment and trespassing into an elephant enclosure at the San Diego Zoo because he failed to show up in court as he promised. Jose Manuel Navarrete, 26, was seen with his 2-year-old daughter as he was trying to take a photo […]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1455,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"11555","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"source_name":"","source_url":"","via_name":"","via_url":"","override_template":"0","override":[{"template":"1","single_blog_custom":"","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"1","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"top","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_share_counter":"1","show_view_counter":"1","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author":"1","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_category":"1","show_post_reading_time":"0","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","show_zoom_button":"0","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","show_prev_next_post":"1","show_popup_post":"1","number_popup_post":"1","show_author_box":"0","show_post_related":"0","show_inline_post_related":"0"}],"override_image_size":"0","image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post":"0","trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post":"0","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","sponsored_post_name":"","sponsored_post_url":"","sponsored_post_logo_enable":"0","sponsored_post_logo":"","sponsored_post_desc":"","disable_ad":"0"},"jnews_primary_category":{"id":""},"jnews_social_meta":{"fb_title":"","fb_description":"","fb_image":"","twitter_title":"","twitter_description":"","twitter_image":""},"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[11551,11593,11555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-304839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-no-images","category-uptown-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304839","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1455"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=304839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304839\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=304839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=304839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=304839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}