Man convicted of animal cruelty for stealing flamingo from Las Vegas hotel

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   Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorA Las Vegas jury has convicted Ontario man Mitchell Fairbarn of animal cruelty for taking a flamingo named Peachy from the enclosure at the Flamingo Las Vegas Hotel and Casino.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorHe told the court he spent the day gambling and drank thirty to forty beers before walking into the habitat around five a.m.

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   Brock Thunderson · Chief MeteorologistThirty to forty beers? Somebody should have warned that flamingo the lagoon was about to get a lot more unpredictable.

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   Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorAnd police allege he took her up to his fourteenth-floor hotel room, with cellphone video showing him posing with the bird in the casino hallways.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorPosing.

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   Brock Thunderson · Chief MeteorologistIn the hallways! Past the slot machines! Somebody walked by a man carrying a flamingo and kept on gambling, and I respect that commitment.

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   Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorHis lawyer, Josh Tomsheck, called taking the bird dumb and said his client never meant to hurt it.

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   Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorPeachy is twenty-seven, and her vet says she's doing all right physically but is more anxious when evaluated.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorFairbarn faces up to four years on the felony and six months on the misdemeanor. He's under house arrest until sentencing on December first.

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    Brock Thunderson · Chief MeteorologistHouse arrest. So the first thing he's been told to stay put in is a room that doesn't have a flamingo in it.