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Stanley Gehrt took a late-night drive to the cemetery on Chicago’s South Side. Its gate was locked, so he jumped the fence. In the trap he had set earlier, Gehrt found a young male coyote. He drugged it and carried it away.
As he approached the fence, Gehrt spied two men trying to break into his truck. When they saw him leap over the fence and rush toward them, coyote lolling in his arms, the men yelled and ran.