LAS VEGAS (AP) — Airline officials say they called for help after a passenger was found stowing a monkey in his shirt during a flight from Columbus to Las Vegas Tuesday night.
The passenger aboard the Frontier Airlines flight broke policy by not informing the airline that he was bringing a service animal onboard, and then refused to turn over documents verifying the monkey’s status, Frontier spokesman Richard Oliver said.
Law enforcement officials met up with the plane and determined that the monkey was a certified service animal, according to McCarran International Airport spokeswoman Christine Crews.
Oliver says the animal was brought surreptitiously onto the plane in a duffel bag and never became loose or uncontained during the flight.
It wasn’t immediately clear whether the passenger faces consequences.