A former Massachusetts K9 cop was sentenced to 18 months in jail Wednesday for starving his dog to death in his home.
Antonio Carneiro apparently did not abuse the dog he was assigned to as an officer for the Boston transit police. But his own dog, Nitro, wasn't so lucky.
The six-year-old Belgian Malinois weighed only 25 pounds when he was found two years ago in a cage at Carneiro's home in Rochester, Ma., police said.
The dog, which looks a bit like a German Shepherd, should have weighed 60 to 65 pounds.
Carneiro was fired a short time after his dead dog was discovered.
"How could a K-9 officer allow this to happen to his animal?" Rochester Police chief Paul Magee told FOX 25 after the sentencing.
Carniero, 43, will be pondering that question in the Plymouth House of Corrections.
Unlike Nitro, he'll be fed three times a day.
(NY Daily News - May 25, 2011)
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