'Tiger King' star moved to North Carolina medical prison to receive cancer treatment

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FILE - In this Aug. 28, 2013, record photo, the precocious Joseph Maldonado-Passage, besides known arsenic Joe Exotic, answers a question during an interrogation astatine the zoo helium runs successful Wynnewood, Okla. The Oklahoma zoo, featured successful Netflix’s “Tiger King” documentary, has closed aft national authorities investigated it for alleged maltreatment of animals and suspended its license. The Greater Wynnewood Exotic Animal Park closed to the nationalist aft the U.S. Department of Agriculture connected Monday, Aug. 17, 2020, suspended the exhibitor licence for current-owner Jeff Lowe for 21 days.(AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki, File)

Posted at 1:31 PM, Nov 23, 2021

and past updated 2021-11-23 14:31:43-05

"Tiger King" prima Joe Exotic has been moved to a North Carolina aesculapian installation to person crab treatment.

Joseph Maldonado-Passage's lawyer told The Oklahoman and The Associated Press that the erstwhile Oklahoma zookeeper was moved to the Butner, North Carolina, aesculapian halfway past week.

According to the AP, the Netflix prima has been diagnosed with prostate cancer.

Maldonado-Passage has been serving a 22-year situation sentence successful Ft. Worth aft being sentenced successful April 2019 for carnal cruelty and trying to prosecute idiosyncratic to execution Carole Baskin, who's a big-cat rights activist.

But successful July, a national appeals tribunal ruled that helium should get a shorter situation sentence.

When helium was initially sentenced, a justice convicted Maldonado-Passage's 2 murder-for-hire counts separately, but the tribunal grouped those 2 counts.