Police kill Pit Bull after it attacks Officer

VIRGINIA -- Surveillance video from the house across the street shows an undercover police officer delivering five pounds of marijuana to this home on 71st street in Newport News.

Within a minute, it's picked up by one of the suspects.

Surveillance video shows police approaching the house

Police come in with a search warrant to check the home for drugs. They knock on the door. When the man doesn't answer, they break the door down, calling out for the suspect.

That's when one of the officers is attacked by a pit bull - bitten in the groin and taken to the ground.

Another police officer shots the dog, and the pit bull is killed.

It's a dog, neighbors say, has had trouble in the past.

"She said the dog was barred from the state of North Carolina for biting children. The dog had bit her and that the dog had bit a friend. And that they didn't know what they was going to do with the dog," says one neighbor.

The suspect was arrested, along with two other people living at the home. The police officer attacked by the dog is doing fine.

Neighbors say they're not surprised to hear the pit bull attacked the officer.

"It got to the point where whenever I came outside, I looked to see where the dog was. Instead of going this way, I would go this way. Because I'm not going to put myself in harm's way," she says.

It was so bad that the woman, who requested we not give out her name, even kept a journal of all the times the dog was a neighborhood nuisance.

From Memorial Day on, these sheets of paper are the running diary of a woman who says she was terrorized by her next door neighbor and her troublesome dog.

Arrest Photo:
Tywanna Deangelo Holley

"The day I was doing yard work, and that's when he sicced one of the pit bulls on me."

Five pounds of marijuana was seized and 26-year-old Tywana D. Holley was charged with possession of marijuana with intent to distribute, the sheriff’s news release said. He was being held at the Newport News City Jail.

(WTKR - Oct 27, 2011)