A man from New York state is facing charges, after he allegedly stole a shark from a pet shop.
30-year-old Elbert Starks is accused of fishing the $350 shark out of an aquarium in the pet store in Lynbrook, in Long Island, on December 12.
He then allegedly smuggled the nurse shark out of the store by hiding it under his jacket, before releasing it into his home aquarium.
Police say that they also found a green moray eel in the aquarium, which he had bought with a stolen credit card on January 2.
'This guy obviously has a thing for fish,' Brendan Jones, a worker at the store the eel was taken from, told the New York Post 'But he obviously made a poor decision.'
The shark and eel were unharmed by their ordeal, and are currently being looked after at a pet store, in a tank marked 'evidence'.
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