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Criminal

Dec. 18, 2001

Big Trouble at the Big Top

SAN JOSE - The circus goes on trial today. Mark Oliver Gebel, a senior animal trainer with Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus, faces a misdemeanor charge of abusive behavior toward an elephant. He is accused of jabbing the animal with a metal-tipped plexiglass wand, breaking its skin and drawing blood, just before the elephants marched into the Compaq Center in downtown San Jose for their performance in August.

By Craig Anderson
Daily Journal Staff Writer
        SAN JOSE - The circus goes on trial today.
        Mark Oliver Gebel, a senior animal trainer with Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus, faces a misdemeanor charge of abusive behavior toward an elephant. He is accused of jabbing the animal with a metal...

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