Houston tiger's whereabouts remain a mystery as jailed man says he's not the owner

As the search continued Tuesday for a Bengal tiger that sparked panic in a Houston residential neighborhood, a lawyer for the man arrested in connection with the incident denied that his client is the big cat's owner and accused police of playing a cat-and-mouse game that has jeopardized his agreement to help locate the animal. Victor Hugo Cuevas, 28, was taken into custody Monday night on a felony charge of evading police, who alleged he fled in a vehicle with the tiger after it wandered out of his Houston home on Sunday evening and prompted a flood of 911 calls from concerned residents, including an off-duty law enforcement officer who pulled a gun on the tiger. Cuevas' attorney, Michael Elliott, told ABC News on Tuesday that Cuevas was about to voluntarily surrender and had agreed to help direct police to the tiger and its real owner but that he was betrayed at the last minute and arrested at his mother's home in Fort Bend County southeast of Houston. "We made arrangements to surrender at 8:15 (p.m.) and we were working on everything together," Elliott said. "We were assisting them by giving them some information about the owner and how we could potentially locate the owner and correspondingly the tiger.