“Tiger King” Joseph Maldonado-Passage, aka Joe Exotic, has found love in prison and announced his engagement in a post on Twitter.com.
Meet Jorge Marquez he is 33. He is so amazing and is from Mexico.
Now, the quest of getting married in prison and getting him asylum or we be leaving America when we both get out.
Either way, I wish I would have met him long ago. pic.twitter.com/MYRVPcy97Y
— Joe Exotic (@joe_exotic) October 29, 2024
Maldonado-Passage is serving a 21 year prison sentence after his 2020 conviction for violating federal wildlife laws and a murder for hire plot targeting animal activist Carole Baskin, as CrimeOnline reported.
Maldonado-Passage did not say how he met Jorge Marquez, a 33-year-old from Mexico.
“Now, the quest of getting married in prison and getting him asylum or we be leaving America when we both get out,” Maldonado-Passage wrote. “Either way, I wish I would have met him long ago.”
Last week, the Dallas Morning News said that Maldonado-Passage was isolated at the Federal Medical Center in Fort Worth for scabies. Marquez’s name was not found in a search of the federal inmate databse.
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[Featured image: Joseph Maldonado-Passage and Jorge Marquez/Twitter.com]
