An Alabama man best known for allegations that he kept a squirrel hopped up on meth has been arrested ― but not because of the squirrel. Mickey Paulk, 35, was arrested Thursday on drug and firearm charges, NBC News reported. The arrest came after he allegedly fled on a stolen motorcycle, which he’s accused of ramming into an investigator’s vehicle. Paulk had been wanted by law enforcement since mid-June, when Limestone County sheriff’s deputies said they seized meth, drug paraphernalia and ammunition from his apartment. The reason Paulk’s case made national news, however, was because of something else deputies seized from the residence ― a squirrel authorities alleged Paulk had been feeding meth in order to transform the fluffy-tailed creature into an “attack squirrel.”

Limestone County Sheriff's Office/AP Deeznuts, a squirrel local law enforcement claimed was being fed meth and kept as an "attack squirrel." Mickey Paulk, the man accused of doing so, denies the allegations and says that Deeznuts is his beloved pet.

However, lacking a meth test designed with squirrels in mind, officials simply released the animal back into the woods without determining if it actually had the substance in its system. (It’s also illegal in Alabama to keep a squirrel as a pet.) However, Paulk staunchly denied the deputies’ characterization of the squirrel, saying they totally fabricated the story. “You can’t give squirrels meth; it would kill them,” said Paulk in a video he posted while still on the lam ― adding that he had never actually tried administering meth to a squirrel.