{"id":97868,"date":"2016-06-01T08:06:15","date_gmt":"2016-06-01T16:06:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=97868"},"modified":"2016-06-01T08:06:15","modified_gmt":"2016-06-01T16:06:15","slug":"parents-of-four-whose-son-fell-into-zoo-enclosure-sparking-killing-of-harambe-the-gorilla-as-it-emerges-father-has-a-lengthy-criminal-history-including-kidnap-and-drug-trafficking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=97868","title":{"rendered":"Parents-of-four whose son fell into zoo enclosure sparking killing of Harambe the gorilla as it emerges father has a lengthy criminal history &#8211; including kidnap and drug trafficking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-3617016\/EXCLUSIVE-PICTURES-parents-four-son-fell-zoo-enclosure-sparking-controversial-killing-Harambe-gorilla-emerges-father-lengthy-criminal-history.html\">Daily Mail<\/a>: Deonne Dickerson and Michelle Gregg have been heavily criticized<br \/>\nHarambe was fatally shot after their four-year-old boy crawled past a railing and fell 15ft into the gorilla exhibit moat<br \/>\nHarambe was shot dead after dragging the boy violently around<br \/>\nMany have blamed the boy&#8217;s parents for 17-year-old Harambe&#8217;s death<br \/>\nThey released a statement on Sunday saying their boy is doing &#8216;just fine&#8217;<br \/>\nZoo director said Harambe was &#8216;disoriented&#8217; and tranquilizer would have taken too long with the possibility of agitating the animal even more<br \/>\nDirector said: &#8216;Looking back we would make the same decision&#8217;<br \/>\nHe insisted barriers were secure, asking: &#8216;Do you know any four-year-olds? They can climb over anything&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>These are the parents of the four-year-old boy whose 15-feet fall into the gorilla exhibit moat in Cincinnati Zoo resulted in the death of 17-year-old silverback gorilla, Harambe.<br \/>\nSeen here for the first time is mother Michelle Gregg, 32, who has four children by father Deonne Dickerson, 36, a man who, Daily Mail Online can disclose, has a lengthy criminal history.<br \/>\nCriminal filings against Dickerson stretch over a decade and include burglary, firearms offences, drug trafficking, criminal trespass, disorderly conduct and kidnap.<\/p>\n<p>In 2006 he was sentenced to one year behind bars for a drug trafficking conviction.<br \/>\nBut in numerous pictures posted on Dickerson&#8217;s Facebook site in recent years he appears to have turned his life around to become the proud father of four.<br \/>\nIndeed, the majority of his postings to the social media site are updates of his children and his working life.<br \/>\nIn others pictures he has uploaded his friends congratulate him and Michelle on the birth of their fourth child last January.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/34C8870D00000578-0-image-a-1_1464652047487.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/34C8870D00000578-0-image-a-1_1464652047487-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"34C8870D00000578-0-image-a-1_1464652047487\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-97869\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/34C8870D00000578-0-image-a-1_1464652047487-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/34C8870D00000578-0-image-a-1_1464652047487.jpg 634w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/34C8870900000578-0-image-a-3_1464652280184.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/34C8870900000578-0-image-a-3_1464652280184-169x300.jpg\" alt=\"34C8870900000578-0-image-a-3_1464652280184\" width=\"169\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-97870\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/34C8870900000578-0-image-a-3_1464652280184-169x300.jpg 169w, https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/34C8870900000578-0-image-a-3_1464652280184.jpg 306w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 169px) 100vw, 169px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/34C5D69700000578-3616453-The_boy_s_mother_wrote_a_Facebook_post-a-4_1464623964420.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/34C5D69700000578-3616453-The_boy_s_mother_wrote_a_Facebook_post-a-4_1464623964420-300x232.jpg\" alt=\"34C5D69700000578-3616453-The_boy_s_mother_wrote_a_Facebook_post-a-4_1464623964420\" width=\"300\" height=\"232\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-97871\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/34C5D69700000578-3616453-The_boy_s_mother_wrote_a_Facebook_post-a-4_1464623964420-300x232.jpg 300w, https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/34C5D69700000578-3616453-The_boy_s_mother_wrote_a_Facebook_post-a-4_1464623964420.jpg 634w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Daily Mail: Deonne Dickerson and Michelle Gregg have been heavily criticized Harambe was fatally shot after their four-year-old boy crawled past a railing and fell 15ft into the gorilla exhibit moat Harambe was shot dead after dragging the boy violently &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=97868\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-97868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blacks"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t<!-- All in One SEO 4.9.8 - 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