FORT WORTH — Joe Unique, made famous within the Netflix line “Tiger King” and these days serving presen in federal jail, says he’s occupied to a fellow inmate in Texas and hopes to get married.
Unique, whose actual title is Joseph Maldonado, is these days incarcerated at Federal Scientific Middle Citadel Use. He submitted a wedding software to the federal jail to wed fellow inmate Jorge Marquez Flores, he introduced in a information shed Wednesday.
Maldonado was convicted in 2019 on 21 counts, together with 19 counts of natural world crimes and two counts of hiring hitmen to execute animal activist Carole Baskin. He’s serving a 21-year sentence.
His fiancé, 33-year-old Jorge Marquez Flores, initially from Mexico, is serving presen for immigration-related problems, in keeping with Maldonado’s information shed.
In step with Maldonado, each males are positive the jail will approve their software and feature “high hopes” that Maldonado’s enchantment will be successful. He hopes the 2 could be spared from jail in mid-2025.
In his information shed, Maldonado additionally asked a presidential mercy for each he and Flores, in addition to asylum for Flores.
“I wish someone that is President or wins the Presidency would do the right thing and pardon me so I could move past this nightmare that my own country has caused for the last 7 years of my life,” Maldonado wrote within the information shed. “All I did was build a zoo and some people were very jealous. Then I was put into prison by my own country.”
