Two animals that were among three stolen last month from a Jurupa Valley elementary school classroom have been found and returned.
The third -– a bright orange spiny lizard called a uromastyx -– was released by the thieves because they feared selling the distinctive creature would get them caught, according to a report in the Riverside Press-Enterprise.
They were arrested anyway.
Officials said the animals were taken from the fifth-grade classroom terrarium at Troth Street Elementary School during an August weekend.
A bearded dragon and a tarantula were recovered this week by Riverside County Sheriff's Department deputies, who arrested the alleged thieves at the home where the stolen critters were found.
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Photo: A tarantula, much like the one stolen from a Jurupa Valley elementary school. Credit: Rachel Denny Clow / Corpus Christi Caller-Times
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