{"id":750200,"date":"2026-07-08T09:15:24","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T09:15:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/750200\/"},"modified":"2026-07-08T09:15:24","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T09:15:24","slug":"canadian-tourist-accused-of-injuring-las-vegas-strip-flamingos-due-in-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/750200\/","title":{"rendered":"Canadian tourist accused of injuring Las Vegas Strip flamingos due in court"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">LAS VEGAS (<a href=\"http:\/\/fox5vegas.com\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"http:\/\/fox5vegas.com\/\">FOX5<\/a>) \u2014 The Canadian tourist accused of harming several flamingos at an exhibit on the Las Vegas Strip pleaded not guilty during his court arraignment Tuesday morning. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Mitchell Fairbarn, 33, is facing multiple animal abuse charges related to an incident where he was caught on surveillance camera cornering several flamingos and grabbing one, which he brought back to his hotel room. He told police, according to an arrest report, that he brought it back to \u201cpop its wing back in place\u201d. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"figure-img img-fluid mx-auto d-block\" alt=\"A man faces four counts of animal cruelty after Las Vegas police say he broke into a Flamingo...\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/5GKRSFSS75DXTKN5XO6BU6ZCJA.jpg\" width=\"980\" height=\"551\" \/>A man faces four counts of animal cruelty after Las Vegas police say he broke into a Flamingo habitat and injured a few birds.(LVMPD)<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">During Tuesday\u2019s hearing, Fairbarn pleaded not guilty to all four felony charges. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">MORE ON FOX5 | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox5vegas.com\/2026\/03\/05\/im-taking-it-home-man-seen-video-abusing-flamingos-las-vegas-hotel-police-say\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.fox5vegas.com\/2026\/03\/05\/im-taking-it-home-man-seen-video-abusing-flamingos-las-vegas-hotel-police-say\/\">\u2018I\u2019m taking it home\u2019: Man seen on video abusing flamingos at Las Vegas hotel, police say<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Upon his arrest, Fairbarn was asked to surrender his passport and has been barred from leaving the country until the case\u2019s conclusion. He is also prohibited from visiting the Strip or making any contact with animals until further notice. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Fairbarn\u2019s trial is currently set for October 12. He is due back in court for a Calendar Call hearing on October 6. <\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 KVVU. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LAS VEGAS (FOX5) \u2014 The Canadian tourist accused of harming several flamingos at an exhibit on the Las&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":750201,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[321727,321729,321728,321730,321726,79,201],"class_list":["post-750200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-canadian-tourist-hurts-flamingos-las-vegas","tag-las-vegas-animal-abuse","tag-las-vegas-flamingos-hurt","tag-las-vegas-strip-flamingo","tag-mitchell-fairbarn","tag-science","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/750200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=750200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/750200\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/750201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=750200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=750200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=750200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}