Texas: Cipriano Gonzalez pleas to animal cruelty

TEXAS -- An Odessa man who threw a crowbar at his wife and hit a dog instead was sentenced to two years in prison after pleading guilty to aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and cruelty to animal charges.

Cipriano Antonio Gonzalez pleaded guilty Tuesday afternoon in Judge Stacy Trotter’s 358th District Court. He was sentenced to two years in prison on the aggravated assault with a deadly weapon charge and one year in prison on the cruelty to non-livestock animals charge.

Trotter said during the hearing the sentences would run concurrently.

On July 24, Gonzalez, 38, threw a crowbar at his wife, but missed her when she moved out of the way. Instead, the crowbar hit Gonzalez’s wife’s dog.

The dog died two days later after being transported to a veterinarian’s office.

(Odessa American - Feb 24, 2016)