“Any further review and action taken by Prince George’s County, including any appropriate charges against the owner, will be evaluated once the zebras return to the herd,” Ms. Now, just two remain alive and on the run. But The Washington Post reported on Thursday that Linda Lowe, a spokeswoman for the Prince George’s County Department of the Environment, said that, in fact, only three zebras had gotten loose. Taylor had initially said that five zebras had escaped from a privately owned farm. The chief of the animal services agency, Rodney Taylor, did not immediately respond to calls late Thursday night. Moses referred questions about the case, such as why officials had waited nearly a month to disclose the discovery of the dead zebra, to Prince George’s County Animal Services, which she said was handling the case. “However, the Maryland Natural Resources Police will assist the Prince George’s County animal facility with this ongoing case.” “At this time, police do not have any information on who placed the snare trap,” she said. Moses said it was illegal to set snare traps in Prince George’s County. Moses said, was believed to have been among those that had escaped from a farm in Upper Marlboro on Aug. When the officers arrived, they found a dead zebra in a snare trap near a field, the spokeswoman, Lauren Moses, said in a statement. 16 of a dead animal on private property in Upper Marlboro, Md., about 20 miles southeast of Washington. One of the wayward zebras that have been running freely across the backyards and roads of suburban Maryland since they escaped from a farm in late August has been found dead in an illegal snare trap, the authorities said.Ī spokeswoman for the Maryland Natural Resources Police said in a statement on Thursday that officers had responded to a report on Sept.