Now the two tenants who rented the home from a North Las Vegas city councilman could face animal-cruelty charges, authorities said Monday.
Councilman Isaac Barron issued a statement Monday through a city spokesman saying that he's heartbroken about the dogs that perished at the Stanley Avenue home he owns, and he expects people will be held accountable if crimes were committed.
"I was completely unaware of the conditions inside the rental home and filed a notice of eviction just last week after repeatedly being denied entry by the occupants," the statement said. "As a councilman, I will be looking into regulations that ensure this doesn't happen again."
City law allows residents to have no more than three adult dogs unless they pay a $25 annual fee for a so-called dog-fancier permit to keep up to six canines at home.
Barron is also a teacher at Rancho High School in Las Vegas. It wasn't immediately clear if his tenants had the dogs as pets or were breeding them for sale.
Their names weren't immediately made public.
City spokesman Mitch Fox said Barron told him Monday that he knew the men had dogs, but he didn't know how many.
The eviction notice was served last Wednesday, Fox said, and the councilman said his tenants were several months behind on rent.
One of the three bedrooms in the single-story home of less than 1,200 square feet was described as piled with animal waste.
(Monroe News - Sept 29, 2014)
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