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BY AIDAN GRAHAM
¡Vive Fidel!
Thieves stole a woman’s 15-
year-old chihuahua mix from
Prospect Park on Saturday
— only for the owner and her
friend to recapture the pilfered
pup the following day!
Owner Jess Gray’s beloved
tail wagger, Fidel, was roaming
free during off-leash hours
in the Long Meadow section of
Brooklyn’s Backyard at 8 a.m.,
when a fi endish pooch pirate
snatched the furry comrade
while Gray’s back was turned,
according to a friend, who
helped lead the ad-hoc searchand
rescue operation for the
dog.
“There were a lot of people
around. Everyone had
their dogs off the leash,”
said Danielle Marveal. “Jess
heard him yelp, and then he
disappeared.”
A jogger informed the worried
dog-owner that he had witnessed
a slim, six-foot-tall man
with curly blonde hair running
with the canine toward
the park’s exit at Grand Army
Plaza.
After fi ling a police report,
Marveal and Gray took matters
into their own hands and
scoured the Slope in a two-day
search for the stolen canine.
“We spent hours looking
around there, and we were
about to give up for the night
when Jess spotted him out
of the corner of her eye,” said
Marveal.
The dognapped chihuahua
was walking with two strangers
on Sunday evening near
Fifth Avenue and Douglass
Street, according to Marveal,
who snapped into action at the
sight of the missing canine.
“A young woman was walking
him on a leash. I jumped
out of the car, crept up behind
her, and grabbed the leash out
of her hand,” she said. “I asked
her where she got the dog, and
she said she’d found him. She
looked like she was in shock,
but they were being very confrontational.”
After a brief skirmish, the
rescuers scooped their fourlegged
pet and hopped back in
their car, but the second captor
— who did not match the original
thief’s description — followed
in pursuit, said Marveal.
“A man started chasing us,
and he tried to bash our window
with his skateboard, and
he tried to get inside the car,”
she said.
Marveal and Gray managed
a successful getaway, leaving
Fidel’s captor’s in the dust as
they booked it straight for the
78th Precinct’s Sixth Avenue
station house.
The pooch’s liberators suspect
his theft was part of an
elaborate shake-down scheme,
according to Marveal.
“We had a lawyer reach out
to us, and they said it might
be part of a kidnaping ring —
where one person steals the dog,
and another person returns it
for the reward,” she said. “We
think they might have been
holding out for a higher reward.”
Nevertheless, the pup is
now safe in his Crown Heights
home, where Marveal and Gray
will be taking extra precautions
in the future.
“He’s never going to be let off
the leash again,” said Marveal.
RESCUED: A 15-year-old chihuahua mix was recovered by his owner after
being stolen from Prospect Park on June 29. Danielle Marveal
Ruff rescue in Park Slope
Owner reunited with stolen chihuahua
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