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$5,000 offered for info on Lady Gaga dognapping suspect released on clerical error

Authorities are offering $5,000 for information leading to the recapture of James Howard Jackson, a 19-year-old suspect in a 2021 plot to steal Lady Gaga’s French bulldogs.

The suspect was mistakenly released from custody April 6.

Mr. Jackson was the alleged gunman in the Feb. 24, 2021, attack on Lady Gaga’s dogwalker, Ryan Fischer, in the streets of Los Angeles.

The attack left Mr. Fischer hospitalized with a gunshot wound to the chest, though two of the dogs taken in the incident were later recovered.

The U.S. Marshals Service, which announced the reward Monday, said in a statement that five people were arrested in April in connection with the attack, two of whom were charged as accessories after the fact.