Ryck Crabtree, 25, was visiting a home on Walnut Street in Agawam when a neighbor allegedly filmed him abusing a black and white shih tzu, according to a police statement filed in Westfield District Court.
The "witness stated to me that he watched a white male (nearby) choke a small white and black dog and hit this same dog with a plastic whiffle ball bat and throw the dog across the yard," Agawam Police Officer Edward Connor wrote in his report.
The witness showed Connor and an animal control officer a video of the incident, according to Connor, which allegedly depicted Crabtree committing a series of abuses: choking the dog with its collar, slamming it on a chair and hitting it with the bat.
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| The video is poor quality but you can see him dragging the tiny dog down the stairs and then swirls around like a shot putter and throws the dog across the lawn. |
Connor reported that he confronted an occupant of the house about failing to intervene during the alleged abuse, but that she did not seem concerned.
"So what, they are only dogs," she allegedly said.
Animal control found a second dog in the house and took both to the VCA Montgomery Road Animal Hospital in Westfield, where they were held overnight for observation, according to the report.
Crabtree was arrested, and while in police custody allegedly made phone a phone call to his mother pleading with her to pay his bail.
"During the call he was crying to his mother and said he will pay her back and get him out of jail," Connor wrote. "He then said 'Mom, I didn't beat the dog. I just threw him across the yard.' "
A person answering Crabtree's phone number, listed on court records, hung up when asked for comment.
Crabtree was charged with two counts of animal cruelty and was released on $200 bail.
(MassLive.com - Aug 25, 2015)
RYCK CRABTREE CRIMINAL HISTORY:
July 23, 2013 - 5:31p.m.: Holyoke PD arrest individual for past 209a violation in Longmeadow. Arrested Ryck Crabtree, 23, of 20 Easthampton Road Apartment #B10 Holyoke, MA. He was charged with violating an abuse prevention order. - Longmeadow News Police Log
Kidnapping hearing continued
MASSACHUSETTS -- A determination of whether or not a city man will be tried in Hampden Superior Court was postponed Friday when Judge Philip A. Beattie allowed a motion for a continuance to allow the defendant’s lawyer additional time to prepare his defense.
The case stems from a Dec. 9, 2013, incident in which a city woman claimed that the man had assaulted and kidnapped her in her Southwick Road apartment.
Officer Michael Csekovsky reports, in a court document, that he responded to the station after the alleged victim went there to complain about her on-again, off-again, boyfriend.
Csekovsky reports that the woman told him that the man, Ryck Crabtree, 23, of 19 Sackett St., had come to her apartment and an argument developed.
The woman told him that the man refused to leave when she asked him to and, when she said she was going to call police, took her car keys and cellphone.
She told Csekovsky that when she tried to take another phone from the kitchen table to call police the man also took that phone.
She said that Crabtree “pushed her against a wall and put his hands around her throat” Csekovsky reports.
The victim said that the man would not allow her to leave the apartment for at least an hour after the assault began and she said that “she was trapped in the bathroom as Ryck was blocking the exit to the bathroom and refused to let her out.”
She said that she was eventually able to leave the apartment when she agreed to drive him to an Elm Street drug store.
Once Crabtree entered the store, the woman said, she immediately drove to the police station to report the crime.
Crabtree was located at a relative’s Sackett Street home and arrested on charges of assault and battery in a domestic relationship, intimidating a witness and kidnapping.
When he was arraigned in Westfield District Court before Judge Paul M. Vrabel on Dec. 10, Crabtree was held in lieu of $5,000 cash bail.
A district court can impose a sentence of no more than two and a half years so, since the kidnapping charge allows for a sentence of as much as ten years imprisonment, trial in Hampden Superior Court is an option.
A hearing to consider dismissing the charge in district court so the case could be heard in superior court was rescheduled on Friday for Feb. 7.
NEWER ARREST FOR RYCK CRABTREE:
Holyoke (MA) Police Department
Dispatch Log From: 12/27/2015 Thru: 01/02/2016
Call number: 15-51517
Call: 2029
Reason: SUSPICIOUS VEHICLE
Location/Address: [HOY 1277] UNIVERSITY PARK APTS - 20 EASTHAMPTON RD
Refer To Arrest: 15-3166-AR
Arrest: CRABTREE, RYCK
Address: 20 EASTHAMPTON RD Apt. #B10 HOLYOKE, MA
Age: 25
Charges:
#1 WARRANT-DEFAULT--#1544CR001003
#2 WARRANT-STRAIGHT--#1523CR006687
#3 WARRANT-DEFAULT--#1517CR002357
#4 WARRANT-DEFAULT--#1517CR002271
Stay away from this man!!! If he can put hands on his own grandmother he's capable of anything..thank you for exposing this animal
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