Tourist Who Snatched Flamingo from Vegas Strip Habitat Found Guilty of Animal Cruelty

A Clark County jury on Monday Oct. 19) convicted Canadian tourist Mitchell Fairbarn of felony and misdemeanor animal‑cruelty charges for removing a flamingo from the Flamingo Las Vegas Hotel and Casino’s wildlife habitat and injuring the bird during a March 3 incident captured on surveillance video. Fairbarn—a 34-year-old resident of Ontario, Canada—faces up to four years in prison on the felony and six months on the misdemeanor at his sentencing, which is set for Dec. 1. He has been under house arrest in the Las Vegas area (with electronic monitoring) since shortly after his March 3 arrest.