Charlie, a 200-pound Sulcata tortoise, was reunited with his humans Wednesday morning, Oct. 4, less than a day after he busted out of his chain-link-fenced yard and hit the streets of Jurupa Valley.

Riverside County Department of Animal Services Officer Christopher Peck had help from a citizen to carefully lift the tortoise into his animal control truck about 4 pm. Tuesday, according to an animal services news release.

Before the truck reached the Jurupa Valley animal shelter barn, someone had come in asking about the wayward tortoise.

The tortoise breed, originally from the Sahara desert in Africa, is known for its bumpy shell and can live to age 70 in captivity.

By Wednesday morning, Lynn Olsen came in to fetch her family’s 17-year-old pet, whom they acquired when Charlie was age 10 and only weighed 80 pounds.

“He made a hole in our fence,” Olsen said in a video about the tortoise’s adventure. “Suddenly, he was gone.”

Charlie has a grassy fenced yard and a deep burrow at home, but if he busts out again, county officials made sure they could reunite the big boy with his humans.

Before they loaded him in a pickup truck for the ride home, they implanted him with a microchip.