According to a probable cause affidavit, Boca Raton Police responded to an apartment at 401 NE Mizner Blvd. on Tuesday morning for an animal abuse complaint.
They spoke to a woman who said she suspected her roommate was entering her room in her absence, so she purchased a motion sensitive "spy camera" disguised as an alarm clock to record video.
When she came home from work on Monday evening, she watched the video and saw her roommate Jordan Scott Bean, 24, enter her room and "actively hunt her cat Chompers in her bedroom."
The footage showed Bean wrapping the cat in a towel or blanket and violently shaking, choking and slamming Chompers on the bed for about 10 to 15 minutes.
Bean admitted to officers he did go into his roommate's room to tease and chase Chompers around.
When officers watched the video on a laptop, they report it showed Bean hunting and tormenting the cat and Chompers hissing, moaning and wailing in response. In one scene Bean corners Chompers in a closet.
"A few seconds after he closes the closet door, loud bangs could be heard from inside the closet and then you do not hear any noises from the cat for approximately 1 minute."
According to the affidavit, Bean can be heard on the video "meowing while inside the closet, mocking the cat."
Boca Raton Police declined to release the video.
A vet checked the cat out and found Chompers in good health but warned to check for changes in behavior that could indicate a problem.
Bean was jailed Tuesday afternoon on an animal cruelty charge and was released Tuesday night on $3,000 bail.
(CBS12.com - January 16, 2013)
