Friday, July 17, 2015

Dead Cat Tied To 10-Pound Weight Found In SF Bay During Pier 14 Shooting Investigation

CALIFORNIA -- San Francisco police divers who jumped into the bay to look for evidence in the Pier 14 killing not only found the suspected murder weapon — they located a dead cat in a bag submerged by a 10-pound weight, officials said Thursday.


Because the cat had an injected microchip, police and city animal control officers were able to track down and arrest the owner, who was identified as 34-year-old Adrian Erik Dumont.
 
 
The divers reported finding the cat on July 2, a day after Kate Steinle, 32, was shot to death while walking with her father along the waterfront. They also found a pistol allegedly used by illegal alien Juan Francisco Lopez-Sanchez, who has pleaded not guilty to murder.

The city Department of Animal Care and Control said the dead cat was a 2-year-old brown tabby named Kazuma, and that he had been dumped in the water on the same day he was found. But the agency did not release any other details about the case.

Dumont was charged with felony animal cruelty, said Max Szabo, a spokesman for the San Francisco district attorney’s office. He entered a plea of not guilty at an arraignment Tuesday, and was released on $15,000 bail.

(San Francisco Chronicle - July 16, 2015)

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