(November 2017) California: Enping Qu, 22, poured boiling water FIVE TIMES onto a screaming dog that was locked in a cage, say police

CALIFORNIA -- Two 17-year-old teens at a Chino Valley park called sheriff’s officials after they watched and video recorded a man at a nearby apartment building pouring scalding water on a caged dog Tuesday evening, according to San Bernardino County sheriff’s officials.

“You could hear the horror in the girl’s voice when she said, ‘Oh my god, is that boiling water?’ ” said Deputy Dan Renear on Wednesday.

Enping Qu pouring boiling water on the dog locked in its cage

The teens were in Pinehurst Park around 5 p.m. when Renear said they heard a dog whimpering.

The 17-year-old boy and girl looked around and spotted the caged dog on the third-story balcony of a nearby apartment building, which was more than 50 yards away.

That’s when Renear said the pair saw a man, later identified as 22-year-old Enping Qu, use a tea kettle to pour water over his girlfriend’s dog.

Renear and a trainee, Dominic Ramirez, tracked down the right unit at the apartment in the 16000 block of Butterfield Ranch Road.

Qu, who spoke very limited English, allowed the deputies into the apartment, where they found the dog, still wet and warm, in the cage in the balcony.

Using Google translator on their phones, deputies learned the dog belonged to Qu’s girlfriend, who was at school, Renear said.

As Ramirez spoke to Qu, Renear spotted an electric tea kettle on a warming plate that had been turned off.

“But when I touched it, that thing was still scorching hot. I couldn’t even put my hand on it,” he said.

 

Because the complex is fairly new and doesn’t show up on all maps, Renear said it took Inland Valley Humane Society officers more than an hour to arrive at the complex.

Note: Seriously, this is the most ridiculous thing I've heard in a long time. You couldn't find the address so you drove around for "more than an hour"? 

A Google Maps search shows exactly where the apartment complex is it:

I can't imagine the police just standing around FOR MORE THAN AN HOUR while this little dog, with its burned skin and in horrible pain (they say burn injuries are the most painful of all injuries)... just sat there and suffered. 

“But even after an hour and a half or an hour and 15 minutes, when they tested the water — even after all that time — it was 129 degrees,” Renear said.

Detectives learned Qu poured hot water on the dog five times, according to a sheriff’s statement.

Qu claimed to deputy he "didn't know the water was that hot" and that, the other times he was seen pouring water from the tea kettle over and over onto the dog was, according to him, he "tried to add cold water".

Qu was arrested on suspicion of animal cruelty and animal control officers took possession of the dog. It’s unclear if the dog will be returned to its owner, Renear said.

Records indicate Qu was released on bail.

“I’m a dog-lover and it makes you angry,” Renear said. “It was a very sweet and loving little dog.”

Qu, 22, was arrested on suspicion of animal cruelty. Qu quickly posted bail and was released.

Note: Did Mommy and Daddy give him the money? Many Asian countries, including China, don't have animal cruelty laws. They can do whatever they want to animals without repercussion - that's why they boil dogs alive. Likely, he thought he could do whatever he wanted to animals here in the United States without repercussion -- or he simply didn't care.

(FOX8 - November 8, 2017)

Tennessee: Little dog named Midnight mauled and killed by two Pit Bulls

TENNESSEE -- Tiffany Nicole posted on Facebook October 18, 2017 ·

I miss him so much I thought I would never be attached to him. We had him for 9 months so yes it's like a death in the family we love Rip #midnight

What hurts so bad is he was killed by some Mexican two streets over they watched they dog killed midnight he a 200 pound pit bull it was two of them he had a big hole in his neck.

They ass acting like they can't speak English talking they sorry f..k your apology I want my damn dog back Man damn

Tennessee: Three illegal aliens, who tortured and stabbed family's dog, have been deported back to Mexico

TENNESSEE -- It took the better part of a year, but the three men convicted in December of brutally attacking a dog in their Asheville Highway apartment in 2016 are now back in their native country, Mexico.

Francisco Pultarco-Flores, 27, Hector Mendoza-Solano, 26, and Luis Mendoza-Hernandez, 24, were each sentenced in December 2016 by Circuit Court Judge Alex Pearson to one year in jail at 30 percent release eligibility on convictions of felony aggravated cruelty to animals.

 

 

Upon release in February from the Greene County Detention Center, the men were turned over to the custody of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

ICE spokesman Thomas N. Byrd said Wednesday that the trio, all ILLEGAL ALIENS FROM MEXICO, were deported to their country of origin on March 29.

“All three were ordered removed by an immigration judge from the Department of Justice’s Executive Office for Immigration Review,” Byrd said.

The three men were in the U.S. illegally, authorities recently said. There was apparently some initial confusion about their ages and full names after their arrests [likely because they gave them fake names, reversed their names, etc.], but the men were conclusively identified following an ICE investigation.

“Once we have someone in ICE custody we will detain them while we process them for removal. They will generally go before an immigration judge who will determine if they are to be removed,” Byrd said. “If the judge orders a person removed, we will then begin the process of obtaining travel documents from their country of origin. Once that is completed, we will schedule them for removal.”

Pultarco-Flores, Mendoza-Solano and Mendoza-Hernandez were charged Aug. 14, 2016, by sheriff’s deputies with the felony animal cruelty offense. The men were apparently working in the Greeneville area.

The crime they were charged with outraged many in the community. Their victim was a 7-year-old German shepherd named “Smokey.” His owners live nearby.

 

Smokey was rescued from the men’s apartment in the 7900 block of Asheville Highway. Sheriff’s deputies investigating a drunk and disorderly call probably saved Smokey’s life, Greeneville-Greene County Humane Society representatives said after the incident.

Smokey’s owners, Elaine and Lester Darnell, told deputies that they were not at their White Sands Road home on the night of Aug. 14, when a thunderstorm passed through the area.

Elaine Darnell later said that she and her husband returned to put Smokey inside the house because he is afraid of storms, but the dog had already jumped over a fenced-in enclosure.

Smokey apparently ran about a quarter-mile to the 7900 block of Asheville Highway, where he came in contact with the three men. They never divulged the circumstances.

 

As deputies entered the apartment, the three men were seen in a rear bathroom.

"The bathroom door was open. There were three men in the bathroom with the dog and they were holding a bloody knife and a bloody stick," Amy Bowman, Manager at the Greene County Humane Society said.

 

Smokey had several cuts and punctures to his body. He had been beaten, stabbed repeatedly in the face, neck and body while trapped in the bathroom with the three men. 

Blood was all over the floor of the apartment’s bathroom, one of the men was holding a bloody knife and another was holding a long wooden stick [with a knife attached to the end] that was also covered in Smokey's blood.

In court in December, Plutarco-Flores and Mendoza-Hernandez entered guilty pleas to aggravated cruelty to animals. Medoza-Solano entered a best interest plea, meaning he did not admit to the acts alleged by the state, but the plea had the same legal effect as if he were found guilty of the charge by a jury.

At sentencing in December, Pearson additionally prohibited the three men from owning any type of animal for 15 years. They were also ordered to pay veterinarian expenses incurred in treating the dog, which took several months to fully recover from his injuries.

It’s unlikely the court order prohibiting the men from owning animals carries any legal weight in Mexico, court officials said.

 

Pearson reviewed documents relating to the actions of the men before sentencing. He made similar statements to each defendant.

“These are terrible facts against you and you understand that kind of behavior is extremely offensive not only to the court but society in general,” Pearson told Mendoza-Hernandez.

Pultarco-Flores, Mendoza-Solano and Mendoza-Hernandez never offered an explanation for their actions on the night of Aug. 14, 2016.

 

 

(Greenville Sun - June 16, 2017)

Earlier:

• Tennessee: Mexican illegal aliens Luis Mendoza, Francisco Flores and Hector Mendoza found in bathroom beating, torturing and stabbing dog
• Tennessee: Illegal aliens Luis Mendoza, Francisco Flores and Hector Mendoza await criminal court after beating, torturing and stabbing dog

Florida: Aramis Barcelo, 36, charged with 36 counts of possessing undersized and out of season lobsters. This guy is why we can't have anything nice. He doesn't think rules apply to him.

ARREST INFORMATION:
Full Name: Aramis Barcelo
Block: 1700 NW 69th St
City: Miami, Florida 33147
Occupation: TOW TRUCK DRIVER
Gender: Male
Birthdate: 02/14/1981
Arrest Age: 36
Date: 05/28/2017
Arresting Agency: FWC -
Arrest Location: OVERSEAS HWY FIESTA KEY, 70001, Monroe, FL
Location: Monroe County Florida
Charges:
36 Misdemeanor count of VIOL FWC RULE OR ORDER LEVEL TWO SUBSQ OFF
STATUTE: 379.401.2a ( Misdemeanor)

FLORIDA -- On Sunday, May 28, 2017 at Fiesta Key near mile marker 70, a Miami man was arrested on multiple lobster violations. The FWC charged Aramis Barcelo, 36, with possession of 12 wrung lobster tails on the water, all undersized and out of season. Barcelo faces 36 misdemeanor counts.

Hopefully he'll have to forfeit his boat as well as it was used in the commission of a crime.

  

 

MORE INFO:
Florida Fish and Wildlife Law Enforcement - Wrung Lobster Tails
Spiny lobster must be taken to shore in whole condition. Separating the tail from the body is prohibited while on state waters.

Spiny lobster may be harvested recreationally during the July 25-26 sport season and during the regular season, which starts Aug. 6. Make sure to “know before you go.” Spiny lobster may not be harvested in John Pennekamp Coral Reef State Park during the sport season and in Everglades National Park, Dry Tortugas National Park and no-take areas in the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary during both the 2-day sport season and the regular season.
photo: Tim Donovan/FWC

(FL Keys News - May 31, 2017)

(March 2017) Georgia: Caught on surveillance video by an 8-year-old boy who saw him raping a dog, Cruz Barrera-Lugo, 61, makes his second court appearance

GEORGIA -- The case against a Lawrenceville man accused of RAPING engaging in a sexual act with his employer’s dog moved forward this week, though the charges against him were altered slightly.

Cruz Barrera-Lugo, 61, sat emotionless in the Gwinnett County Magistrate courtroom flanked by his attorney and a Spanish-speaking translator Friday as Gwinnett County Police Officer Kevin Fieldgrove laid out the state’s case against him.

Officer Fieldgrove said he was called to a house in Lawrenceville Feb. 11 to check out what he originally referred to as a “domestic dispute.”

The owner of the home reportedly told Officer Fieldgrove his 8-year-old nephew had been watching the home’s security footage on a computer when he saw “a man in the backyard messing with his dog.”

It was reportedly the family’s hired landscaper, Barrera-Lugo, who had been tending the family’s lawn every two weeks for about a year.

Officer Fieldgrove said the home owner went outside to confront Barrera-Lugo.

“He said the (landscaper) went pale white,” Fieldgrove said. “He tried to plead with (the homeowner) not to call the police.”

Officer Fieldgrove said he watched the security tape when he got to the Lawrenceville home. It allegedly showed Barrera-Lugo coaxing the dog into a corner of the yard and pulling down his pants before RAPING engaging in a sexual act with the animal.

When Officer Fieldgrove couldn’t find Barrera-Lugo to arrest him, the police released information about his case to the media.

Barrera-Lugo turned himself in soon after. He was booked into Gwinnett County jail Feb. 13 at 4:47 p.m. on charges of bestiality and cruelty to children in the second degree, according to jail records.

The felony charge of cruelty to children in the second degree means a suspect is accused of causing cruel or excessive mental or physical pain to a minor, according to Georgia law.

Officer Fieldgrove said Friday he felt that charge appropriate for Barrera-Lugo’s case. He said the 8-year-old involved in the case had suffered cruel or excessive mental pain when he watched his family’s landscaper engage in a sexual act with his dog.

But Barrera-Lugo’s attorney, Eric Crawford, argued the state had no evidence the boy suffered that degree of mental pain. The court agreed.

Barrera-Lugo will still face a felony charge of bestiality when he comes before Gwinnett Superior Court, but child cruelty charge was dropped to third degree — a misdemeanor.

Barrera-Lugo may have to wait in jail until his superior court date arrives. Crawford argued bond for his client Friday, but it was denied.

(Gwinnett Daily Post - March 3, 2017)

Earlier:

• Georgia: Landscaper Cruz Barrera-Lugo, 61, caught raping his employer's dog

Georgia: Landscaper Cruz Barrera-Lugo, 61, caught raping his employer's dog

GEORGIA -- A man wanted for allegedly having sex with a neighbor's dog made his first appearance in front of a judge Tuesday afternoon.

Cruz Barrera-Lugo, 61, is charged with bestiality and cruelty to children in a Feb. 11 incident and went before a court at 1:30 p.m.

Gwinnett County Police were called to a Lawrenceville home and met with the owner, who said he was playing in the yard with his nephew when they saw Barreralugo with RAPING their dog.

Police said when the landscaper realized he had been seen, he stopped and fled the scene in a small, black, two-door, pick-up truck.

But once police reviewed home video surveillance, they realized that the act was caught on video. It’s unknown whether or not this was the first time he had sexually assaulted the animal.

According to the homeowner, Barreralugo had been handling his landscaping every two weeks for nearly a year.

Barreralugo's wife that her husband turned himself in on Monday afternoon.

At his first court appearance the judge informed him, through a woman translating into Spanish because he does not speak English, that he is to be held without bond at the Gwinnett County Jail.

His next court appearance will be a preliminary hearing that will take place on Friday, March 3 at 1:30 p.m.

(11alive - Feb 14, 2017)

Massachusetts: Jessica Torres, 32, left her dog named Piglet to suffer and then complained that she didn't speak English well enough to seek help for her

MASSACHUSETTS -- A Springfield woman who failed to get treatment for her dog's badly infected eye has been charged with animal abuse.

Jessica Torres, 32, pleaded not guilty Tuesday in Springfield District Court to one count of cruelty to an animal following a complaint filed by the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.

In August, Torres took her dog Piglet to the Boston Road Animal Hospital for evaluation of an eye infection that had begun three weeks earlier and was getting worse, according to the complaint.

Torres was given prescriptions for antibiotics and pain medicine and told the dog's eye was so severely infected that it would probably have to be removed, the complaint said.

"She left with instructions to seek care as soon as possible because Piglet was in pain," MSPCA investigator Christine Allenberg wrote in the complaint.

Three months later, the 4-year-old poodle and cocker spaniel mix had received no treatment, had a temperature of 104 degrees and her right eyeball had popped out of its socket, the complaint said. At that time, Torres was seeking to have the dog euthanized due to odor from the infected eyeball, according to the complaint.

The woman agreed to surrender the dog to the Thomas J. O'Connor Animal Control and Adoption Center on Nov. 16. The dog's eye was removed during emergency surgery the next day and she is recovering from her ordeal, the complaint said.

In addition to photos of the dog's infected eye, the case file contains copies of unfilled prescriptions for antibiotics, pain medication and eye drops that Torres received from the animal hospital along with a list of agencies that provide help to low-income pet owners.

Torres [argued that] she could not afford to seek treatment for the dog, and did not speak English well enough to contact any of the recommended agencies for financial help, the report said.

BS. There are plenty of low-income options and there are TONS of government run services available to Hispanics who do not speak English "well enough", especially in larger cities like Springfield. 

Also, it's called GOOGLE TRANSLATE. 

She said she adopted the dog in June through Facebook, and had already adopted a second one before surrendering Piglet, the complaint said.

"Ms. Torres showed me a tan and white dog that she had just gotten the day before from another post she saw on Facebook," Allenberg noted in the complaint.

Following her arraignment Tuesday, Torres was released on personal recognizance and told to return for a pretrial hearing on Feb. 28.

(MassLive - Dec 29, 2016)

Georgia: Pit bull attacks all over the place. Animal control refuses to assist deputy who called for assistance with pit bull.

GEORGIA -- Two incidents of pit bull attacks were reported in Rockdale and Newton counties this weekend and another report was made of a pit bull acting unpredictably in a public park.

In Covington, a 10-year-old girl was bitten several times Saturday evening by a pit bull that was apparently known by neighbors to be aggressive.

According to the incident report filed by the Covington Police Department, the young girl was attending a birthday party in the Settlers Grove neighborhood. As she was chasing a boy across the street, the juvenile ran into the yard where a pit bull was chained to a tree.

“While chasing the boy, the dog bit (the girl) numerous times on different parts of her body,” the report states.

According to the report, the girl had multiple lacerations on both her arms and on her abdomen.

The owner of the dog called an ambulance, but the girl’s grandmother said it was taking too long so she drove the child herself to Newton Medical Center.

When speaking to the CPD officer through an interpreter (non-English speaker), the dog’s owner stated that the “pit bull was a 3-year-old male, very aggressive and all the children knew to stay away from him,” the report states.

Teri Key-Hooson, director of Newton County Animal Control, said that her office is attempting to locate the dog, but when they do, it will need to be quarantined and more than likely declared vicious or aggressive.

In Conyers, a 19-year-old man reported that sometime before 4 a.m. on Saturday, a pit bull jumped a fence, chased him and his puppy home where the pit bull attacked the puppy and injured the young man.

The victim told Conyers Police Department Officer J. Williams that he and his puppy were walking near a home on Willow Creek when a gray pit bull jumped the rear fence and began chasing him.

The victim told police that when he opened the door to his home, his puppy jumped out of his arms, at which point the pit bull “pinned the puppy down and began biting him in the chest and stomach,” the incident report states. “(The man) advised that he attempted to break the dogs up when he was bit on his lower left leg by the pit bull.”

The puppy had several puncture wounds on its chest and stomach, while its owner had a puncture wound on his left leg.

IS THIS THE OWNER CLAIMING THIS?

According to a witness statement, the victim often “will hold his puppy in front of the pit bull and make the puppy growl at the pit bull. (He) believes that this is what occurred this date.”

Rockdale County Animal Control has placed the pit bull in a 10-day quarantine and the owner was given a citation for failure of an owner to keep the dog under control.

ANIMAL CONTROL REFUSES TO RESPOND TO DEPUTY REQUEST FOR ASSISTANCE WITH SKITTISH PIT BULL AT PUBLIC PARK

In other pit bull news, a Newton County Sheriff’s Office deputy was dispatched to Denny Dobbs Park around 10:30 a.m. Sunday in response to complaints that a pit bull was roaming around the park.

A man at the park told the deputy that when he tried to scare the dog away from the children, it charged at him.

“The dog was sitting beside the restrooms when I first observed it,” Deputy Timothy Dickerson reported. “When I tried to approach the dog, it would not let me get close and kept walking away from me with its tail between its legs looking back at me.”

Dickerson paged the on-call Animal Control officer because of the “large amount of children and people at the park and the unpredictable nature of the dog.”

The Animal Control officer stated he would not respond, which is standard procedure since the dog had not attempted to bite anybody at that point, Key-Hooson said.

Bad cop label for this lazy animal control officer. There's a big difference between them not responding to a Beagle mix wandering around sniffing trash cans and a large pit bull refusing to leave the area which is a public park where children are at. 

(newtoncitizen - Sept 9, 2013)

California: Victims describe harrowing Wilmington dog attack

CALIFORNIA -- In what must have appeared like a scene from a movie, Alfredo Ramos clung tenuously to the fence, unable to get to safety.

Alfredo Ramos lies in bed with his leg and arms bandaged 
after a vicious attack by two dogs Tuesday in Wilmington.

Two angry dogs clamped down on his legs with their teeth, trying to pull him down.

"They bit up my shoe," the Wilmington man said. "It was no use. They were just attacking me."

Ramos, 35, and two other victims of Tuesday afternoon's mauling described their horrifying ordeal in detail Wednesday, explaining how they tried to fend off two 70-pound dogs seemingly intent on killing them.

Each showed off bite wounds on their arms, legs and torsos. Bandages covered at least 60 stitches on Ramos' right leg and wounds to his arm, including a chunk of flesh ripped away from his left forearm.

"It's really chewed up," he said.

Ramos knew the dogs were trouble. They had chased him before. When he saw them Monday in their yard, they looked aggressive.


Rita Torres recounts a vicious 
attack by two dogs she survived 
Tuesday in Wilmington

On Tuesday, he and his 71-year-old mother-in-law, Rita Torres, saw the dogs roaming free on the sidewalk as they walked just a few blocks to Wilmington Park Elementary School to pick up Ramos' 5-year-old son and a 7-year-old boy they care for after school.

"By the time we passed again with my son and the kid we baby-sit, I knew they were sort of not looking at us right," he said.

Fearing the dogs might attack, Ramos told the children to run ahead. The children were gone when the canines pounced.

The dogs - a male boxer and American bulldog mix, and a male pit bull terrier and Akita mix - rushed toward Torres, biting her buttocks and legs, as she walked with Ramos through an alley.

Showing teeth marks on her legs, Torres said in Spanish that she was terrified, especially when the dogs got close to her face.

Ramos rushed toward the dogs to protect her, taking out his keys and stabbing one dog on the top of the head.

"They got more angry and went after me," he said. "They really came harder and harder. They ripped a chunk of my arm and my calf and took a few bites of my foot."

Ramos managed to get away, running toward a fence. He leaped onto it and tried to climb it, but the dogs grabbed him.

"Once he bit my pants, then he got hold of my shoe and then he got hold of my legs," Ramos said.

Torres said she screamed for help, picking up a discarded carton and then a bag of clothes, and hurling them at the dogs.

"(Ramos) was hanging, covered in blood," she said.

As she yelled, a neighbor pulled his car into the alley. Ramos yelled, too.

"If nobody would have come to the rescue, the dogs wouldn't have stopped," Ramos said. "I was screaming so far, `Somebody help me, help me!' It could have been a lot worse."

Seeing the car, the dogs ran to a nearby park. Ramos jumped onto the car's roof.

Just blocks away, Rafael Marquez Arce, 65, sat on a bench in the East Wilmington Greenbelt, a narrow park with swings, grass and plenty of children who had just been dismissed from Wilmington Park school.

In these three photos, Rafael Marquez Arce shows
his numerous wounds on his chest, arms and legs.

Arce said he saw the dogs coming toward him. He jumped up, but they lunged at him, biting his arm, chest and legs.

Children and parents in the park scrambled for safety.

He tried to fight them off, but they got angrier. Another man, seeing what was happening, ran over with a blanket and flicked it at the dogs, trying to lure them away from Arce.


The dogs took the bait, grabbing onto the blanket with their jaws and trying to pull it from him. The man dragged the dogs toward a slide and climbed up it. The dogs gave up, released the blanket and trotted away.

Police, firefighters and animal control officers arrived a short time later. Animal control officers found the dogs at a house in the 1500 block of East Denni Street. They had run home.

The owner, hearing how much it would cost to quarantine them while they were under investigation, relinquished his rights to the animals and surrendered them to the officers.

The dogs are in quarantine at the San Pedro animal shelter. Animal control Capt. Daniel Pantoja said the mauling is under investigation and the dogs will either be destroyed or adopted by a rescue group if that is deemed appropriate.

Chuco, an intact male Boxer and American Bulldog mix

The victims are taking antibiotics in case the dogs are determined to have rabies. Pantoja said the dogs, Cisco and Chuco, were unlicensed and unaltered.

The owner was cited for letting dangerous dogs run free.

Ramos and his mother-in-law said they were grateful the dogs did not attack any children.

The Dennis Street house where the dogs live is owned by Gonzalo Anguiano and Leonor Anguiano. A man who lives in the residence, Rick Hernandez, returned a message left by the Daily Breeze.

He said he cared for the dogs for the last year for the owners, but hung up twice when asked questions about why the dogs were allowed to run free.

Cisco, an intact male pit bull terrier and Akita mix

The man, neighbors said, has walked the dogs without leashes, and has previously allowed them to roam free.

"I'm angry because they have given us problems before," Ramos said. "I've been chased by that dog before. I had warned my mother-in-law about those two dogs."

(Daily Breeze - April 29, 2011)

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