A criminal chimpanzee is leading the London police on a wild chase, after breaking into apartments and stealing cell phones and other valuable equipment. The police received reports of two burglaries at separate addresses in east London. A Scotland Yard spokesman says, “Only small items of personal property, a mobile phone and parts of a stereo system, were stolen. The caller of the second burglary confirmed to police he had seen an ape disappearing from the premises.”

Mustapha Riat was an eyewitness. He woke up in his apartment to find a large hairy figure with five-foot-long arms towering above him. “I saw this hairy black chimpanzee coming through,” he says. “It was broad and muscular. I was frightened of being bitten.”
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