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Dallas rapper Trapboy Freddy, who legal name is Devarius Dontez Moore, was arrested on weapons charges Wednesday after police served the 30-year-old a federal warrant. However, police were surprised to also find a caged tiger cub inside the rapper's Oak Cliff home during a search. Animal Services was called to come collect the tiger during Moore's arrest, according to the Dallas Morning News , and the tiger is currently being held in protective custody at an undisclosed location. This tiger cub was found when Dallas police were assisting federal agents with a warrant at the home of Devarius Dontez Moore known as Rapper Trapboy Freddy. Sources say the cub was taken by Texas Parks and Wildlife. @wfaa pic.twitter.com/ITfupTs4T0 — Rebecca Lopez (@rlopezwfaa) August 18, 2022 New picture of tiger confiscated at Trapboy Freddy’s house. @wfaa pic.twitter.com/KHFDeT9w2O — Rebecca Lopez (@rlopezwfaa) August 18, 2022 Erin Dooley, a spokeswoman for the U.S. … [Read more...] about Tiger cub found in Texas rapper’s home didn’t actually escape Dallas Zoo

Houston has bigger trees, and older ones. But for charisma, nothing beats the Cemetery Oak. It is, of course, a live oak — Houston's favorite tree — and it is, of course, a whole lotta live oak. Sixty-four feet tall; trunk wide as a Volkswagen . Like all old live oaks allowed to grow as they will, its twisty, fern-covered branches stretch farther outward than upward. The lower ones do their darnedest to brush the ground. That ground, notably, is Glenwood Cemetery, a marble-angels-and-Spanish-moss piece of the Old South, a stray piece of New Orleans hidden just off Washington Avenue, about a mile from downtown. It's a place designed for the living to mingle with the dead; a garden punctuated with gravestones. And nowhere do you feel that life-and-death connection more strongly than at the back of the cemetery, in the Forest Mound section, where among graves dating to the 1910s, the Cemetery Oak continues to thrive — a live oak that's very much alive, there among the dead. A … [Read more...] about The mystery of the Cemetery Oak