"Tiger King" Joe Exotic announces prison engagement

Joe Exotic, made famous in nan Netflix bid "Tiger King" and presently serving clip successful national prison, says he is engaged to a chap inmate successful Texas and hopes to get married.  

Exotic, whose existent sanction is Joseph Maldonado, is presently incarcerated astatine Federal Medical Center Fort Worth. He submitted a matrimony exertion to nan national situation to wed chap inmate Jorge Marquez Flores, he announced successful a news merchandise Wednesday. 

Maldonado was convicted successful 2019 connected 21 counts, including 19 counts of wildlife crimes and 2 counts of hiring hitmen to termination animal activist Carole Baskin. He is serving a 21-year sentence. 

Joe Exotic, Jorge Flores

His fiancé, 33-year-old Jorge Marquez Flores, primitively from Mexico, is serving clip for immigration-related issues, according to Maldonado's news release.

According to Maldonado, some men are optimistic nan situation will o.k. their exertion and person "high hopes" that Maldonado's entreaty will succeed. He hopes nan 2 would beryllium released from situation successful mid-2025. 

In his news release, Maldonado besides requested a statesmanlike pardon for some he and Flores, arsenic good arsenic asylum for Flores. 

"I wish personification that is President aliases wins nan Presidency would do nan correct point and pardon maine truthful I could move past this nightmare that my ain state has caused for nan past 7 years of my life," Maldonado wrote successful nan news release. "All I did was build a zoo and immoderate group were very jealous. Then I was put into situation by my ain country."

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