The animal trucking company involved in the Montour County Pennsylvania crash that led to the escape of three monkeys in 2022 has been shut down.
You may recall the brief global attention to the strange escape and subsequent illness that at least one witness had after being exposed..
Last January, the monkeys escaped after a truck carrying about 100 of them collided with a dump truck along Route 54 near Danville..
A hours-long hunt ensued until eventually the animals were captured..
PETA reports this on its site:
And the USDOT issued the company an out-of-service order, which prohibits it from conducting business, because it had refused to undergo a safety audit.
PETA discovered that Quebedeaux had apparently ignored the USDA and USDOT licensing requirements and hauled four elderly long-tailed macaques, a species now declared endangered, from a breeding operation in Florida to Arizona State University, a serious violation of the AWA.
PETA didn’t let that slide. We called on the USDA to investigate Quebedeaux’s Transport as well as the Florida breeding facility and Arizona State University for their roles in the unlawful transport of the elderly monkeys.
We also urged the USDOT to investigate not only the shipment to Arizona but also four other shipments that appeared to have taken place after the out-of-service order was given. These included a shipment of 180 Cambodian long-tailed macaques from Orient BioResource Center, one of Inotiv’s monkey farms implicated in the recent U.S. Department of Justice indictments following alleged monkey laundering and smuggling from Cambodia.
