Florida: Dog shot dead by BSO deputy serving search warrant at Lauderhill home; Shaneka Caldwell arrested on multiple drug charges

FLORIDA -- A Broward sheriff's deputy fatally shot a dog Friday while serving a search warrant at a home in Lauderhill, authorities said.

The incident was reported shortly after 2:30 p.m. in the 3400 block of Northwest First Street.

 

Broward Sheriff's Office spokeswoman Veda Coleman-Wright said deputies were executing a narcotics search warrant when they encountered a pit bull.

During the search, deputies encountered an "aggressive" pit bull on the property, the agency said. A deputy detonated a flash-bang grenade to distract the dog before resorting to lethal force.

"A deputy used a flash-bang, hoping that would stop the pit bull," said agency spokeswoman Veda Coleman-Wright in an email. "Unfortunately, the dog died at the scene."

 

 

Neighbors disputed deputies' claims, telling Local 10 News reporter Andrew Perez that the dog was just barking.

"Regardless of what (is going on), the dog is gonna bark, because this is the dog's yard," one woman said. "It lives here, so that's what it knows, to bark when someone's coming in the yard that don't live here. So how they kill one dog, but they didn't kill the other one? I don't understand that.

"They killed the first dog they saw. The dog didn't do anything to the police. They just put the gun to his head and shot him. That's it."

Sky 10 was above the scene as authorities took photos of the pit bull in the backyard of the home before the dog's carcass was removed.

 

 

Unidentified man being led away by police

A woman, identified as Shaneka Caldwell, 29, was arrested on multiple drug charges.

Members of the Violence Intervention Proactive Enforcement Response and SWAT teams found a stash of drugs, including flakka, Ecstasy, cocaine and heroin, inside Caldwell's bedroom. They also found a large amount of cash and two guns, one in Caldwell's purse.

(Local10 - Aug 6, 2016)