JASPER COUNTY, Miss — Ten years as sheriff in Jasper County, Mississippi, Randy Johnson has never had a week like the last one.

“This is a once-in-a-lifetime thing, I hope, but who knows what’s next?” said Sheriff Johnson.

It started last Tuesday. Bodycam video shows his deputies responding to a crash on I-59 near Heidelberg involving a truck transporting 21 monkeys.

“You kind of laugh a little, and then I thought, let’s find out if there’s any dangers associated with these monkeys,” said Sheriff Johnson.

Sheriff Jonson says information deputies were getting on scene indicated those monkeys may have been carrying diseases.

“There going from Tulane, which is a research facility to Maryland to another research facility,” said a deputy in the bodycam video.

With eight monkeys out of the

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