A Mariners Harbor woman who's prohibited from owning a dog after pleading guilty in an animal cruelty case still kept a pit bull as a pet, police allege.
Christina Pardee, 28, most recently of Holland Avenue, had been arrested back in February, after police learned that one of her friends, Noel Galvin, abandoned his 3-year-old pit bull, Jay, in her empty apartment, which had no heat or electricity.
Galvin -- who told police he didn't give Jay water because "I didn't want the dog," according to a criminal complaint -- was sentenced to 60 days in jail in April, time he served while awaiting the case's disposition.
Pardee took a plea as well, which included a judge's order on July 7 that she not possess or live with any animals for a year.
She couldn't adhere to that rule, though, according to police – from the day of the order to Aug. 17, she still lived with a male pit bull named Biggie at her Ludwig Lane address, according to a new criminal complaint against her that cites one of her acquaintances as a witness.
According to the complaint, Pardee admitted to keeping the dog, saying, "I didn't want to send my dog to ACC (Animal Care and Control) or ASPCA because they would put him down."
Pardee told police that she registered Biggie under her sister's and another woman's name, and tried to give him to different friends, "But they couldn't keep him anymore because it's hard to find a home for a big male pit bull. So every time they gave it back, I had to keep him until I could find a new home. Now my mom said she'll take him."
In an interview with the Advance Monday, Pardee denied the charges, and said the statement quoted in the criminal complaint is "totally mixed up."
"I never said any of that," she said. "I said I gave him to a friend ... which he resides at today."
That friend is the one who told police that she still lives with Biggie, according to the criminal complaint.
She also pointed to an old photo of Biggie she posted on Facebook in May, and again in August, contending that police are inaccurately using that photo as proof she still lives with the dog.
"I'm nowhere around Staten Island as it stands, because I have no place to stay on Staten Island. I've been in Brooklyn, I've been in Manhattan with family and friends," she said. "The only time I stepped foot on Staten Island was that Tuesday to go see probation and that's when I got arrested, and today when I had court."
"So I don't know how I'm around a dog that's on Staten Island if I'm nowhere on that Island. I must be like a magician," she added.
Regarding the February case, she said that even though she took a plea deal, she didn't know Galvin had abandoned Jay in her old apartment. She had moved in with Galvin last November, she said, after she came back from jail in relation to a grand larceny case and found the heat and electricity shut off.
Pardee faces a single count of second-degree criminal contempt, a misdemeanor, according to information from Acting District Attorney Daniel Master's office. She remains free on $1,000 bail.
(SILive.com - Aug 24, 2015)
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