Momo the monkey captured after 24 hours of terrorizing Indianapolis

He’s quite the party animal.

A nearly 24 hour-long search for an escaped pet monkey in Indianapolis finally ended Thursday — but not before the primate chugged a stolen beer, broke into a vacant house and caused some injuries.

Momo was safely nabbed by his owner’s brother after he busted into a home that is still under construction, said Lt. William Carter of the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department.

Officers were hot on his tail and quickly shut the doors, forcing Momo into a bathroom where he was ultimately cornered.

“That was more than enough monkey business for us,” the department said in a post on X, formerly known as Twitter, to announce Momo’s capture.

The monkey’s trespassing was a lucky break for the IMPD, who had been just out of the animal’s reach since he initially broke out of his Indianapolis home the day prior.

Momo is a patas monkey — the planet’s fastest primate that can move at speeds up to 34 mph, according to Southwick’s Zoo.

Police were called for help Wednesday after receiving reports of minor injuries from “an aggressive animal,” but it’s not clear whether Momo bit anyone.

One bewildered neighbor had just pulled into her driveway after a day of work when Momo jumped to welcome her home.

“I get home and start to get out of my car and a monkey walks up to my open car door,” Karri Harbert said in a Facebook post.

“It took me a few seconds to figure out what it was so I closed the door and he jumped onto the hood of my car! I was starting to get out of my car again and the police (several of them) pulled up and told me to stay in the car that there is a very aggressive monkey on the loose!”

“You can’t make this stuff up!”

Another neighbor spotted Momo drinking a beer he yanked from a garbage can, police said according to WishTV.

After his capture, Momo was taken into the care of Indianapolis’ Animal Care Services, which turned him over to staff at the Indianapolis Zoo for now, said Katie Trennepohl, deputy director of Indianapolis Animal Care Services.

While a permit is not required in Marion County to own such an animal, the county’s prosecutor’s office is determining whether or not Momo will be returned to his owner.

The owner was issued a citation because the monkey was “chasing and approaching in an unsafe fashion” while on the run in a residential area.

The incident was not the first time Momo had broken free and terrorized Indianapolis.

Animal services were called to deal with him after he escaped just as recently as July, Trennepohl said.

She said that anyone who had direct contact with Momo during his time on the lam should contact the local health department because of a concern about “diseases that can be transmitted to humans.”

With Post wires