Police arrest man accused of stealing shark from aquarium by pretending it was a baby

An aquarium.
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The heist was reminiscent of a classic episode of I Love Lucy, except instead of pretending a block of cheese was a baby, a man bundled up a shark and passed it off as an infant.

The gray horn shark was stolen Saturday afternoon from the San Antonio Aquarium, with the perpetrators brazenly grabbing the shark from her tank, wrapping her in a blanket, then placing her inside a baby stroller, police said. Surveillance footage captured the trio while making their escape, and on Monday evening, an unidentified 38-year-old man confessed to snatching the shark, Leon Valley Police Chief Joseph Salvaggio said.

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Catherine Garcia, The Week US

Catherine Garcia has worked as a senior writer at The Week since 2014. Her writing and reporting have appeared in Entertainment Weekly, The New York Times, Wirecutter, NBC News and "The Book of Jezebel," among others. She's a graduate of the University of Redlands and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.