This time, Dustin Harrell failed to report to his probation officer six times. Harrell will have to serve at least two months in jail to complete his original sentence.
He was sentenced to probation in 2012.
In Nov. 2011, officers say he admitted to torturing and then killing his family's Yorkshire terrier by throwing the dog down a flight of stairs repeatedly, holding it underwater and cycling the dog in the clothes dryer for about four minutes.
Harrell told Washington County Sheriff’s Investigator Jeff Miller that he first threw the dog down the stairs at his house, then comforted it, then threw it down the stairs several more times.
“He later filled the bathtub up with water and held the dog under the water for approximately 20 seconds at a time” and did this three times, Miller wrote in the court record.
After the bathtub incident, Harrell said he dried the dog off with a towel, then put the dog in the clothes dryer — with nothing else in it — and turned the machine on for four minutes.
That’s when Harrell told investigators he looked up “dog in the dryer” on the computer. After that, Harrell threw the dog down another time, which broke the Yorkie’s leg.
That injury caused Honey to cry in pain, so Harrell used painter’s tape around the dog’s mouth to keep her quiet and used an Icy Hot sleeve on the dog’s broken leg.
When the Yorkie stopped crying, Harrell told police he removed the tape and the dog began bleeding from the mouth. Harrell said he held Honey and she died in his arms.
An investigator said the little dog's torture and subsequent death occurred over a four-hour period.
At the time, the judge said Harrell would have to comply with probation for 18 months; if he did, the charge would be erased from his record.
But in May 2014, Harrell had not reported to his probation officer, left the state without permission and tested positive for drugs.
(WCYB - Dec 1, 2015)
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