CALIFORNIA -- City of Madera Police Department posted on Facebook March 21, 2018 ·
This evening officers arrested Nathan Flores for animal cruelty.
Flores found a dog in the Fresno River, abandoned. Flores was later seen by neighbors choking the little puppy and holding the puppy under running water from a faucet. The puppy was having trouble breathing as it was trying to cry. We were able to save the puppy and dry him from the cold water.
Flores was transported and booked into MCDOC and the dog was placed in the animal shelter. If anyone would like to adopt this beautiful little puppy feel free to contact the animal shelter for information. The phone number to the animal shelter is 559-675-7891. SB3372
City of Madera Police Department shared a post. March 21 at 6:19pm ·
***UPDATE***
We have received numerous requests from people wishing to adopt the puppy that was terribly mistreated by Nathan Flores last night.
The owners of the puppy have come forward and reported the puppy was stolen from the porch of their residence.
Thank you to everyone for your well wishes and those of you that inquired about adopting the puppy. We hope the remainder of his puppy life is spent being pampered and spoiled! AK3902
ALABAMA -- On October 7, during Hurricane Nate, John Edward Denton drove his vehicle into a creek in Magnolia Springs with the windows down.
A witness said they had seen Denton drive to the boat ramp aruond 8pm, parked for about half an hour and let his dog out to run around.
Then Denton put his dog back in the van, rolled both windows down and drove straight into the water. A witness called 911 while the van filled with water.
When the Magnolia Springs Fire Department arrived, the van was completely underwater. Denton saved himself by swimming to shore.
Stuck inside the sinking vehicle was Denton’s German Shepard. The dog was not able to escape and drowned.
Denton told sheriff’s deputies that he drove in from Birmingham and decided “to check the tide” at the boat ramp. He said the last thing he remembered was "getting into the driver's seat".
Denton was arrested and charged with public intoxication and animal cruelty.
ARREST INFO:
Full Name: John Edward Denton
Address Block: 500 E 1st St
Address City: Bay Minette, Alabama 36507
Gender: Male
Race: White
Birthdate: 12/04/1957
Arrest Age: 59
Arrest Date: 10/08/2017
Arrest Time: 6:16 AM
Arresting Agency: BALDWIN COUNTY SHERIFFS OFFICE
Location: Baldwin County, Alabama
Total Bond: $1500
Charges
#1 DRIVING UNDER THE INFLUENCE - ALCOHOL
STATUTE: 32-5A-191(A)(2) (MISDEMEANOR)
BOND: $1000
#2 CRUELTY TO ANIMALS
STATUTE: 13A-11-14 (MISDEMEANOR)
BOND: $500
UNITED KINGDOM -- A CRUEL pet owner stuffed his Staffordshire Pit Bull terrier in a backpack and drowned her in a river to avoid paying a vet to put her down.
Wayne Waithe, 59, swaddled his dog Missy in a dark green jacket before trapping her in the navy bag and dumping her in the water - but has avoided jail for the sick crime.
Missy's head was left exposed but she drowned after struggling to swim to safety.
WAYNE WAITHE THREW MISSY INTO THE WATER HERE
IN NORFOLK AND WATCHED HER DROWN
Paul Croker told Norwich magistrates that Missy was "alive and breathing when put in the river".
He added: "As it (the rucksack) was bound up, it was unable to swim to safety."
The court heard how Missy, who was around five to seven years old, was found to have number of tumours, including a large one on her belly.
After her body was found near at a bridge in Norfolk, police interviewed Waithe, who admitted he had a dog, but claimed it had died.
Mr Croker said Waithe then refused to be interviewed and became aggressive, asking officers to leave his property.
Waithe, of Norwich, Norfolk, admitted causing unnecessary suffering by drowning the dog on May 9 this year.
However, he claimed he thought Missy was dead when he put her into the water, but this was rejected by magistrates.
Chairman of the bench Jim Agnew told Waithe: "We think you deliberately drowned the dog because you did not want to pay for it to be put down."
NO JAIL TIME FOR THIS HORRIFIC CRIME
He imposed a six-week jail sentence, suspended for 12 months, and also imposed a 10-year ban on him keeping animals.
Waithe, of Norwich, Norfolk, was also ordered to pay £200 towards costs and pay a £93 vets bill, as well as a £115 victim surcharge.
Mr Croker said the RSPCA considered the case as serious and asked that Waithe be banned from keeping pets in future.
"The RSPCA's view is that this individual should not be trusted with animals," he said.
FLORIDA -- The Tallahassee Police Department has arrested a man on charges of animal cruelty.
Donte Francis, 34, was arrested at his home in the 2000 block of Sheridan Drive by an animal control officer with Tallahassee Police Department.
The officer was responding to a call from a witness who told police he saw Francis on top of his Pit Bull, punching it with closed fists.
The witness took a video of Francis’ cruelty and showed it to officers, who observed him punch the dog about 18 times, throw it in the pool and hold its head under water, choke it and pick it up, slamming it to the ground.
A police report on the incident says the entire episode of Francis’ abuse took place over 20 minutes.
When officers arrived at Francis’ home to ask him about the footage, they said they saw the dog in a pen in the back yard and were concerned that it was not moving.
The arrest report says Francis told officers he had “washed his dog in the back yard.”
Francis was charged with felony animal cruelty. Francis was booked into the Leon County Jail and was released Wednesday after posting $1,000 bail. Officers took the dog to a local shelter.
Investigators are continuing to follow up with the case and are asking anyone with information to call (850) 891-4200, or if they choose to remain anonymous, to call Crime Stoppers at (850) 574-TIPS.
ARREST INFO:
Full Name: Donte Keyon Francis
Race: Black
Gender: Male
Height: 5'9"
Weight: 180
Hair: Black
Eyes: Brown
DOB: 10/10/1982
Arrest age: 34
Address: 2018 Sheridan Drive, Tallahassee FL
Charges:
Felony Animal Cruelty pursuant to Florida Statute 828.12(2)
ALABAMA -- Three juveniles in Carbon Hill have been arrested for stealing and then abusing a puppy on June 27.
Acting Police Chief Jason Hare on Thursday said the crime involved a 3-month-old pit pull dog. He said there is no clear motive yet about the crime.
“The Carbon Hill Police Department has arrested three juveniles in a cruelty to animal case where a dog was beaten and a drowning was attempted (with the dog as the victim). The dog was rescued but died at a later date,” Hare said in a statement he released that day, noting that the juveniles have been taken to the Walker County Juvenile Detention Center and that all suspects are innocent until proven guilty.
“The Carbon Hill Police Department and the citizens of Carbon Hill will not tolerate this type of behavior. If anyone choses to participate in this type of behavior, they will be charged and prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law,” he said.
After reading the statement, Hare was asked how this compares to other animal cruelty cases he has seen in the county.
“This is actually the worst one I’ve ever been on,” he said. “When I worked with the county, we had more people who would not feeding their dogs or giving them water and stuff like that. But as far as actually abusing a dog like this, this is the first one I’ve ever worked.”
Hare said the incident happened between noon and 2 p.m. The dog was stolen from the yard of a local residence a few blocks from the city police department, breaking through a fence to take the dog.
The juveniles, who were 12, 13 and 17 years old, took the puppy to the Carbon Hill Swimming Pool, Hare said. Lifeguards turned them away, telling the youth to take the puppy back home, as they could not bring it to the swimming pool. “Then they proceeded to the creek behind the swimming pool, and that is where they beat the dog and tried to drown the dog,” he said. “What happened was the lifeguards heard the puppy screaming in pain as it was being tortured, beat and drowned, so they went down there to check it out to see what was going on. “As they were walking down, I guess the kids heard them coming up, and they took off running. They left the dying puppy wrapped in a shirt. The puppy was barely alive, but passed away a couple of days later.”
Hare said a thorough investigation was made, interviewing the suspects in the process. The parents of the youth were brought in. They were taken to the Walker County Courthouse, where the police and the owner of the dog decided to press charges.
One juvenile was charged with theft of property and the other two were charged with cruelty to animals, Hare said.
“I would also like to thank Keiffer Guthrie, who is one of our officers, officer Antoine Cobb and dispatcher Brittany Chambers for a job well done,” Hare said.
WITHOUT SWIFT AND FORCED MENTAL HEALTH INTERVENTION, THE FBI HAS CLEARLY MADE A CONNECTION BETWEEN CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTS WHO TORTURE AND KILL ANIMALS FOR THEIR AMUSEMENT AND ADULTS WHO RAPE AND MURDER
According to pet-abuse.com, animal abusers are five times more likely to
commit violent crimes than non-abusers and violent childhood and
adolescent offenders against animals are likely to repeat the criminal
behavior as they become adults. Studies have shown that most
ILLINOIS -- It was a grisly scene encountered by a ranger from the Forest Preserve District of Cook County when answering a call earlier this month about a bucket of puppies at the Penny Road pond near Barrington.
When the ranger drove to the 4,000-acre Spring Lake Forest Preserve southwest of Bateman and Lake Cook roads, he went to a pond off Penny Road and found a five-gallon bucket with a plastic garbage bag full of dead coyote pups, seven in all.
"According to the incident report, he picked up the five-gallon bucket, and that was when he realized one was still alive," said Dawn Keller, founder and director of the Flint Creek Wildlife Rehabilitation. She runs the facility in downtown Barrington and in Chicago on Northerly Island.
The discovery was made on May 11, and the ranger dropped the surviving pup — which, like its litter mates, was in the one-pound range and only a couple weeks old — at an emergency veterinarian clinic called Golf Rose Animal Hospital in Schaumburg, Keller said.
According to Keller, the clinic has called Flint Creek in the past for wild animals brought in by the public, so a volunteer showed up and took the coyote, its x-rays and the incident report from the Cook County ranger back to Barrington.
"At the point of admission, the puppy was critical," she said. "The leg was shattered, it was dangling and misshapen and it was sticking out slightly because of a hip fracture."
Keller added that Flint Creek staff "started treating it with fluids, anti-inflammatory and pain medication. On the second day, it opened its eyes. Nine days later, last Saturday, the leg was set in a cast, (and) the coyote was eating well and stable at this point."
That's when she started a Facebook effort to get tips reported to the Illinois Department of Natural Resources hotline.
"It was blunt force trauma," said Keller of what caused the injury, adding that she could only imagine what happened to the other coyote puppies. "They were brutalized. This was not some humane killing.
"It takes a special person to brutalize an animal, especially babies. That's not normal. It's really sad."
Officials with the Forest Preserve District of Cook County and the Illinois Department of Natural Resources were not immediately available to comment on Tuesday. Keller said she contacted the IDNR to make sure it was all right to publicize the tip line on their Facebook page.
Keller said if anyone in the Barrington or Barrington Hills area or anyone else knows anything about the incident that occurred on May 11, they are asked to contact the IDNR tip line at 1-877-2DNRLAW (1-877-236-7529).
"We're hoping the leg heals enough that it doesn't have to be amputated," she said. "We're just trying to help investigators. This is not acceptable behavior."
FLORIDA -- A Florida man caught on video last September putting puppies into pillowcases, throwing them over a fence and then shoving them into a storm drain finally has been arrested.
Seven months after doing the deed, Ernest Martin, 39, was arrested by Jacksonville, Florida police on April 22, reports News4Jax.
Martin now faces six counts — one per puppy — of abandoning an animal in public without providing for its welfare.
According to police, Martin was caught on a surveillance camera last September, cramming pillowcases containing puppies into a culvert at a cross street in Jacksonville.
'It just breaks my heart to see someone hurting animals like that,' the unidentified surveillance camera owner told News4Jax, proceeding to describe what Martin did with the puppies.
'He throws them real high into the air and over the fence and they're hitting the ground,' the man said. 'He came back outside with some pillow cases, grabbed the puppies up one by one, came out here to the drain and started shoving them into the drain.'
Unable to fit all six of the puppies into the culvert, he walked over to another culvert and tried to cram the canines into that one, the camera owner said.
'When they started moving around, he was kicking them, trying to shove them back into the drain,' he added.
After Martin left the area, police say that a passerby saw the pillowcases in the culvert. The dogs were then taken away to be cared for by other people.
The investigation determined that Martin had stolen the six puppies — all of which survived — from his stepfather, who has not been identified.
Martin's stepfather kept one of the puppies and doled out the remaining five puppies involved in Martin's attack to members of his family.
When speaking with News4Jax, Martin's mother, who requested anonymity, claimed that her son suffered from schizophrenia.
'When he saw the dogs, he thought they were little demons,' she said. 'He goes through little spasms, but he put them in there. He put them in the ditch.'
Martin is held on a $90,000 bond and awaiting trial, according to jail records.
NEW JERSEY -- The Toms River man who drove his truck onto a frozen river was sentenced to six months in jail Friday for causing his dog to drown when the vehicle broke through the ice.
DA WANTED 1 YEAR IN JAIL, JUDGE BLANEY SAID NO
In sentencing Andrew Mayer, Superior Court Judge James Blaney said some jail time was necessary, but he rejected Assistant Ocean County Prosecutor Heidi Tannenbaum-Newman's request for a 364-day jail term, said Al Della Fave, spokesman for the prosecutor's office.
So if he only has to spend 6 months in the county jail, he'll only really have to spend about 2 months there. And they may just let him serve the days on the weekends (show up on Friday, stay overnight Friday and Saturday and then allowed to go back home Sunday night). Some punishment, right?
DA WANTED HIM TO PAY THE $70,000 BILL, JUDGE BLANEY SAID NO (SO THE TAXPAYERS HAVE TO FOOT THE BILL)
Blaney also rejected the state's request for Mayer, 29, to pay full restitution to the agencies involved in the search-and-rescue efforts and instead directed him to pay $1,000 each to the New Jersey State Police and Toms River Fire District 1.
They were two of several agencies that responded to a 911 call about a truck falling through the ice, leading authorities to initially suspect that the driver was submerged in the frigid water.
DA WANTED MAYER BANNED FROM OWNING ANIMALS FOR FIVE YEARS, JUDGE BLANEY SAID NO
Noting Mayer's remorse, Blaney also rejected Tannebaum-Newman's request for Blaney to ban Mayer from owning a pet for five years.
Blaney said he did not think a ban was necessary because he believed that while Mayer's actions were reckless, he didn't intend to harm his dog, Della Fave said.
Mayer pleaded guilty to one count of animal cruelty on Sept. 26, admitting he knowingly or recklessly failed to provide the necessary care for his 2-year-old boxer-lab dog, Rolo, by driving his pickup truck onto the frozen river in Pine Beach shortly after midnight.
Authorities have said Mayer was doing donuts on the ice. A relative of Mayer has said the dog was not in the vehicle at the time but jumped into the Mazda B2200 pickup truck while it was stopped on the ice.
Ocean County Prosecutor Joseph Coronato has said Mayer failed to tell authorities about the incident when he got safely to shore. That touched off an hours-long search for potential victims.
It was only after that search attempt that authorities learned Mayer got out unharmed but his dog did not.
The search operation involved the U.S. Coast Guard's Aviation Unit, the New Jersey State Police Aviation Unit, the marine units from State Police and several local police departments, and the fire companies and first aid squads from Toms River, Beachwood, Pine Beach and Island Heights.
The case was jointly investigated by the New Jersey State Police, NJSPCA, Ocean County Prosecutor's Office, as well as the Toms River, Pine Beach, Beachwood and Island Heights police departments.
Of all those responding agencies, only the State Police and Toms River Fire District 1 responded to prosecutors' request about restitution, Della Fave said.
State Police said it cost them $62,273 and the fire department said it cost them $8,370, Della Fave said.
Ocean County Sheriff's officers escorted Mayer from the courtroom and to the county jail to start serving his term, Della Fave said.
UNITED KINGDOM -- A family returned home to find their house had been ransacked by burglars who had drowned their seven-month-old puppy in a bathtub.
The heartbreaking discovery of Benji, the cockapoo, was found at the Great Yarmouth home of mother-of-two Susan Walker on Wednesday afternoon.
Benji, who had been with the family for five months, was found drowned in a bath at the home in Cobholm Close and is believed to have been killed by burglars, who stole a laptop, iPad, an ID card and allergy medication.
Miss Walker, 33, came home to find her home ransacked and Benji missing, then contacted her brother Gareth Deacon-Walker and partner Mark Phillips, 40.
After searching upstairs and having to kick the locked bathroom door down to get inside, Mr Deacon-Walker then found Benji's body, drowned in the bathtub.
He said: “Everything we lost is immaterial. The fact we lost the puppy is the most devastating thing.”
“I came straight down and told Mark to not go upstairs. That sight will haunt for the rest of my life.”
Miss Walker has yet to break the heartbreaking news to her children, Holly, six and Ethen, two.
She said: “I will never be able to go into that bathroom again. Benji was really playful and part of the family. I have not told the children what has happened. We have told them he has gone missing and police are helping us find him.
“Prison would be too good for the people whoever did this. I want them to feel the same suffering they have made us feel.
“There are no words to describe what I am feeling.”
She added that a police officer with 30 years service told her had never seen anything like it and added: “I am scared to be in the house on my own now and I am scared for my children.”
Mr Phillips said that after seeing Benji dead in the bath “he sat on the stairs and cried”.
The family contacted the police who have launched an inquiry into the burglary that led to the death of Benji, who was a cross between a cocker spaniel and a poodle.
Miss Walker had been visiting her mother at the time of the burglary.
Mr Phillips added: “All anyone can do to help is please give the police any information you have.”
Detective Sergeant Richard Wallis said: “This is particularly cruel crime and I would urge anyone who may have seen any suspicious behavior in the area at around the time of the burglary to come forward.”
Anyone with information should contact Great Yarmouth CID on 101.
Alternatively contact Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555111.
GEORGIA -- A Dalton man charged with two counts of cruelty to animals after a dog was discovered dead in shallow water and leaves in an above-ground pool will not serve time in jail after agreeing to a plea deal in Whitfield County Superior Court.
Forrest Brent Moore was sentenced to 12 months probation and ordered to pay a $500 fine and to perform 40 hours of community service by Judge Jack Partain after pleading guilty to one of the two counts. As part of the sentence he cannot own any animals during the probation.
A message left for Moore's attorney, Ibrahim Awad, was not immediately returned Monday afternoon.
At the time of the incident in June 2016, Moore was allowed by Whitfield County Animal Control to leave with another dog found at his residence.
Moore was arrested after neighbors complained of a smell coming from 1012 Foster St., according to a Dalton Police Department incident report at the time of his arrest. Neighbors said Moore had been gone for more than a week, leaving behind two pit bulls.
Officer Bruce Franks found one of the pit bulls “severely malnourished,” and found a bucket to give the dog some water. The other pit bull was found dead in the above-ground pool, lying in a couple of inches of water, leaves and debris.
The officer noted it appeared the dog had gotten into the pool to get water and hadn’t been able to get out, and had been dead for “several days and was bloated.”
THE ABUSED DOG TO BE HANDED BACK TO ITS ABUSER, THE MAN WHO NEARLY STARVED IT TO DEATH - WHERE IS THE DOG NOW?
On June 2, the police department was trying to get a warrant for Moore’s arrest when he showed up at Animal Control and produced ownership papers and records for vaccination for the dog that was still alive.
While Moore was there, shelter personnel contacted Animal Control Deputy Brandon Norwood, who attempted to get in contact with Franks, who was not working that day, and instead was put in touch with Dalton Code Enforcement Officer Chris Cochran, who was helping deal with the condition and health hazards of the pool as well as other code enforcement issues at the property.
Norwood said he asked Cochran if he wanted Norwood to keep Moore at the animal shelter, but said Cochran said the warrant hadn’t been processed and to give the dog back to Moore.
LOUISIANA -- Deputies in Livingston Parish have arrested are looking for a Denham Springs woman accused of leaving her 14 abused dogs to die in August’s historic flooding.
According to the Humane Society of Louisiana, Mary Dupepe is wanted has been arrested for simple cruelty of animals.
On Aug. 18, days after historic flooding in the area, relief workers rescued multiple dogs from a home at 30997 Sweet Bay Street in Denham Springs.
Inside the home, workers found “horrible conditions” where several dogs had died by drowning in their cages. The dogs that did survive were barely alive.
The Humane Society says the dogs had never been let out of their kennels and did not know how to walk without aid. All of the animals suffered severe mange that left them hairless, suffering from sores and lesions. They had infected paws from standing on filthy, kennel wire.
The dogs were evacuated to Zeus Place on Freret Street in New Orleans where they received extensive medical treatment and rehabilitation for months.
Zeus Place became a flood relief triage center that housed hundreds of animals displaced by the August flood.
Dupepe stated she was evacuating during the flood and could not return to the home, but did so as soon as she could. She did not make a comment as to why she had 14 dogs locked 24/7 in filthy wire crates, why the dogs were missing their fur from untreated mange, why the dogs were in such pitiful condition.
“We remain horrified at what these animals endured and how they suffered at the hands of Ms. Dupepe,” HSL Director Jeff Dorson said. “We remain hopeful that Ms. Dupepe will face the consequences of her actions.”
ARREST INFO:
Full Name: Mary Dupepe
Arrest Age:65
Gender: Female
Birthdate: 05/08/1951
Height: 5'00"
Weight: 94 lbs
Hair Color: BLOND OR STRAWBERRY
Eye Color: BLUE Date:02/08/2017
Total Bond: $100,000
Agency: Livingston County, Louisiana
Charges
#1 CRUELTY TO ANIMALS; SIMPLE & AGGRAVATED
STATUTE: 14:102.1 (FELONY) ( F)
BOND: $100000
MARYLAND -- A man from Reisterstown was held without bail on Monday for allegedly drowning a dog in Liberty Reservoir in February, the Carroll County Times reports.
The dog was found dead in the reservoir, tied to a cinder block with a leash and electric cord around his neck, according to charging documents.
The Times reports 36-year-old Anthony Michael Muniz, from Reisterstown, is being charged with one felony county of animal cruelty, one misdemeanor charge of reckless endangerment, one count of trespassing and six other misdemeanor charges related to animal cruelty or abandonment, according to electronic court records.
On February 28, Humane Society of Carroll County Animal Control officers were called to Liberty Reservoir for a call of a dead dog floating in the water.
The Times reports that it was a male, black and white dog of a bully breed named Gus, which had been adopted from the Humane Society of Carroll County by Muniz, according to the dog’s microchip information, on December 24.
Muniz reportedly brought the dog in on December 13 and said he was a stray. He then came back on December 24 to fill out paperwork for the dog’s adoption.
Charging documents say that a woman called the Humane Society on January 5 to say that the dog was not a stray, but belonged to her and that she was “concerned for the dog’s safety.”
Animal Control and the Baltimore Environmental Police have launched a joint investigation into Muniz.
"We investigated it in cooperation with the Humane Society ... and found that [Muniz] had fled the state and was hiding at a hotel in Gettysburg," Brackett said in an interview. "We requested the assistance of the Carroll County Sheriff's Office to extradite him from out of state."
Muniz was arrested and extradited with the assistance of Pennsylvania authorities, and brought before a judge in Carroll County on Thursday, March 23, according to Baltimore Environmental Police Chief Luke Brackett.
Muniz is being held without bail at the Carroll County Detention Center, according to electronic court files. He has a hearing scheduled for May 26.
NEW YORK -- In Jefferson County Court on Wednesday, Jesse Alexander Young, 33, was sentenced to one year in jail and banned from owning pets (for this one-year) after pleading guilty to animal cruelty counts.
On Jan. 31, Jesse Young pleaded guilty to two counts of aggravated animal cruelty for killing two cats belonging to his girlfriend, Kylie Rivers.
Reports say he had twisted the neck of one and drowned another in the summer of 2016 before putting their remains in their freezer.
"After drowning the first cat, 33-year-old Jesse Young allegedly killed a second one less than two months later. Young is accused of striking the second cat so hard that the poor animal went into convulsions. He then grabbed the cat by the neck and twisted until it the cat’s neck snapped." - petition
Mr. Young was also ordered to pay $618 in restitution for the necropsy of the cats.
OHIO -- A Springfield, Ohio, man has been accused of breaking the leg of a 7-week-old puppy with a metal pipe.
Malik T. Shaw, 24, has been charged with cruelty to animals. He pleaded not guilty in Clark County Municipal Court on Thursday morning and was allowed to remain out of jail on his own recognizance.
Springfield Police responded to his home on Nov. 18 on a report of a large fight. After investigating, officers learned the fight started over a dog. Shaw told officers that the children of his girlfriend had taken his pit bull puppy without his permission and demanded return of the dog, according to court records.
The children had removed the puppy — a blue and white male pit bull named Boosie — because they believed Shaw was hurting the animal, the police report says.
"Mr. Shaw had struck the dog with a metal pipe and had tried to drown the dog as punishment for going to the bathroom in the house," the court records say.
"They indicated that a hollow metal pipe on the floor of the home that resembled some type of aluminum furniture leg, was what Mr. Shaw had struck the dog with."
Shaw told officers that he had "probably been too rough with the animal and may have over disciplined it," the police report says. He had planned to seek medical attention for Boosie, the report says, but he didn't have time to do so because he had been working.
Police officers saw the puppy in the home and said it couldn't stand or walk on its rear left leg, according to court records. A dog warden was called to take Boosie.
A veterinarian's report found the puppy suffered a broken leg.
Cruelty to animals is a second-degree misdemeanor that carries a possible penalty of 90 days in jail and/or a $750 fine.
