The Region - News from March 11, 1986

Authorities said they need the public’s help to find a 5-month-old mountain lion cub named Binky, who was stolen from her cage at a private shelter for wild and exotic animals last week. Binky, valued at $2,500, was taken early Thursday morning from an unlocked cage at the Wildlife Way Station on Little Tujunga Canyon Road, Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Deputy John Broussard said. Investigators believe the thief climbed an embankment from a creek bed and scaled a chain-link fence to reach the cage sometime in the early morning, Sheriff’s Sgt. Robert Gonzales said. Binky was alone in her cage several hundred yards from the sleeping quarters of employees of the privately owned shelter for displaced and injured animals, Gonzales said. The 25-pound cub has a light gray coat with black spots.