Tonia Haddix, the Missouri woman who kept chimpanzees in cages under PETA-protested conditions and rose to national fame/shame after being featured in the 2024 HBO docuseries Chimp Crazy , was sentenced to 46 months in federal prison on August 7, Fox 2 reports. She was convicted of two counts of perjury and one count of obstruction of justice for lying to a judge and saying that Tonka the chimpanzee had died before federal authorities came to collect her apes. She pleaded guilty to the charges in March. Tonka, who appeared in Hollywood movies like George of the Jungle and Buddy , was later found alive in her basement. After Haddix was released on bail in July, officials found that she had broken the terms of her bond by keeping a different unregistered chimp in her basement.

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