FLORIDA -- A teenager was injured on Wednesday when he was attacked by a pit bull terrier at a mobile home park near Davie, the Broward Sheriff's Office said.
Justin Wilson, 15, was treated by paramedics for puncture wounds to his back and referred to his family doctor, Sheriff's Office spokesman Al Gordon said.
Justin and his brother Chris, 16, who live in the 3500 block of Southwest 57th Avenue, went to another home at the Silver Oaks Mobile Home Park to visit a girl, Gordon said.
When they knocked on the front door, the dog threw itself against the door and opened it. Justin ran, and the dog attacked him, Gordon said.
The dog was taken into the custody of Broward County Animal Control. If it is properly vaccinated, it will be returned to owners Eugene Saunders and Linda Saunders, Gordon said.
The dog was running loose and attacked a child! No vicious dog ticket?
(Sun Sentinel - April 19, 1990)
Thursday, April 19, 1990
Thursday, January 25, 1990
Florida: Former Beauty Queen Tells Jury About Pit Bull Attack
FLORIDA -- Strangers usually do not see the wounds. But when Dawn Alberti looks in the mirror, the former beauty queen says she sees scars and a nose wider than it was before Jan. 9, 1987 when a pit bull named Ginger mauled her face.
Alberti, 24, of Boca Raton, will not pursue the acting and modeling career she dreamed about before the attack -- not because she does not have the good looks, but because she thinks she does not, she told a Palm Beach County Circuit Court jury on Wednesday.
Alberti is suing the dog's owners, her family's former neighbors, Victor Rosner, Janet Rosner and Doug Rosner.
"I used to look a lot better, a lot better," she testified. "Now my nose bothers me, the mark under my lip bothers me, the mark near my eye bothers me -- all because of that dog."
The Rosners do not dispute that their dog attacked Alberti, but they do contest having to pay for something like the "loss of enjoyment of life" she claims it caused, said Mark Klingensmith, the Rosners' attorney.
Alberti is not asking that the Rosners pay for medical bills of about $5,000, nor the cost of additional cosmetic surgery, nor for the difference in what she might have earned as a model or actress and what she makes now as a nail technician.
She concedes that it is her own idea that she does not look good enough, rather than something someone told her, that keeps her from following her dreams.
Winner of a beauty pageant in her native Long Island, N.Y., and runner-up in a pageant for teenagers sponsored by a nightclub there, Alberti had contacted a talent agency in Boca Raton before her family`s planned move in January 1987.
She had plans with the agency to screen test for the movie, Revenge of the Nerds, she testified. The part called for "a bathing suit on the beach," Alberti said.
But 20 minutes after the Albertis moved into their new townhouse in Boca Raton, she went outside to get a tool for her father and met Doug Rosner as he was walking the dog. That was when the dog jumped up and bit her in the face, Alberti testified.
What did she remember about the attack? asked her attorney, Geri Sue Straus.
"The inside of his mouth ... pink, dark," Alberti responded. "I remember feeling cold on my face ... blood on my face, my nose, my eye."
What was she feeling?
"I was in pain. I was in shock," she said. "I was afraid. I was afraid to look in the mirror."
(Sun Sentinel - January 25, 1990)
Alberti, 24, of Boca Raton, will not pursue the acting and modeling career she dreamed about before the attack -- not because she does not have the good looks, but because she thinks she does not, she told a Palm Beach County Circuit Court jury on Wednesday.
Alberti is suing the dog's owners, her family's former neighbors, Victor Rosner, Janet Rosner and Doug Rosner.
The Rosners do not dispute that their dog attacked Alberti, but they do contest having to pay for something like the "loss of enjoyment of life" she claims it caused, said Mark Klingensmith, the Rosners' attorney.
Alberti is not asking that the Rosners pay for medical bills of about $5,000, nor the cost of additional cosmetic surgery, nor for the difference in what she might have earned as a model or actress and what she makes now as a nail technician.
She concedes that it is her own idea that she does not look good enough, rather than something someone told her, that keeps her from following her dreams.
Winner of a beauty pageant in her native Long Island, N.Y., and runner-up in a pageant for teenagers sponsored by a nightclub there, Alberti had contacted a talent agency in Boca Raton before her family`s planned move in January 1987.
She had plans with the agency to screen test for the movie, Revenge of the Nerds, she testified. The part called for "a bathing suit on the beach," Alberti said.
But 20 minutes after the Albertis moved into their new townhouse in Boca Raton, she went outside to get a tool for her father and met Doug Rosner as he was walking the dog. That was when the dog jumped up and bit her in the face, Alberti testified.
What did she remember about the attack? asked her attorney, Geri Sue Straus.
"The inside of his mouth ... pink, dark," Alberti responded. "I remember feeling cold on my face ... blood on my face, my nose, my eye."
What was she feeling?
"I was in pain. I was in shock," she said. "I was afraid. I was afraid to look in the mirror."
(Sun Sentinel - January 25, 1990)
Saturday, January 13, 1990
Florida: Allen Holmes, 25, arrested after he broke into the animal shelter and stole his pit bull, which had been seized after mauling a cat to death
FLORIDA -- A vicious pit bull, illegally stolen from an animal control shelter in October, was recaptured and euthanized on Friday. The owner of the dog was arrested, the Broward Sheriff`s Office said.
Deputies saw Allen Richard Holmes, 25, and his pit bull, Alvin, sitting in Holmes` car at a service station in the 3600 block of Davie Road on Thursday night, Sheriff`s Office spokesman George Crolius said.
When deputies approached Holmes, he gave them a false name card and began to kick the windows after they put him inside the patrol car, Crolius said.
On Oct. 12, an employee at the shelter discovered the dog was missing when he found a gate cut at the shelter at 1871 SW 40th St. The dog was put there on Aug. 29 after it killed a cat and was declared vicious.
Holmes was charged with possession of stolen property, providing false information, resisting arrest with violence, criminal damage to property and loitering.
(Sun Sentinel - January 13, 1990)
Deputies saw Allen Richard Holmes, 25, and his pit bull, Alvin, sitting in Holmes` car at a service station in the 3600 block of Davie Road on Thursday night, Sheriff`s Office spokesman George Crolius said.
When deputies approached Holmes, he gave them a false name card and began to kick the windows after they put him inside the patrol car, Crolius said.
On Oct. 12, an employee at the shelter discovered the dog was missing when he found a gate cut at the shelter at 1871 SW 40th St. The dog was put there on Aug. 29 after it killed a cat and was declared vicious.
Holmes was charged with possession of stolen property, providing false information, resisting arrest with violence, criminal damage to property and loitering.
(Sun Sentinel - January 13, 1990)
Friday, January 12, 1990
Florida: George Bonner and boy, 14, charged after making pit bulls fight
FLORIDA -- A man and a 14-year-old boy were charged with cruelty to animals after they started a fight between two pit bulls and stood by while the dogs mauled each other, police said.
Both dogs were confiscated, along with three other pit bulls that were badly malnourished, reports released on Thursday show.
"The guys weren't fighting the dogs for money, they were just doing it to watch," police officer John Evans said.
The teenager was arrested in the back yard of a home in the first block of Southwest Fifth Avenue, where the fight occurred and where the second suspect, George Bonner, 20, lives.
Bonner ran when police arrived but later turned himself. Both face misdemeanor charges.
One dog suffered puncture wounds on its head and face, particularly around its eyes. One dog was limping and its left front leg was bleeding when police arrived, officers said.
Two pit bull puppies and an adult female were in a nearby cage.
"Their ribs were showing and their hip bones were visible," Evans said. "They looked really bad."
(Sun Sentinel - January 12, 1990)
Both dogs were confiscated, along with three other pit bulls that were badly malnourished, reports released on Thursday show.
"The guys weren't fighting the dogs for money, they were just doing it to watch," police officer John Evans said.
The teenager was arrested in the back yard of a home in the first block of Southwest Fifth Avenue, where the fight occurred and where the second suspect, George Bonner, 20, lives.
Bonner ran when police arrived but later turned himself. Both face misdemeanor charges.
One dog suffered puncture wounds on its head and face, particularly around its eyes. One dog was limping and its left front leg was bleeding when police arrived, officers said.
Two pit bull puppies and an adult female were in a nearby cage.
"Their ribs were showing and their hip bones were visible," Evans said. "They looked really bad."
(Sun Sentinel - January 12, 1990)
Monday, December 11, 1989
Georgia: Prosecutors said Mitchell Munoz is dangerous and wanted him hospitalized, but Judge Wayne Purdom turned him loose among us
GEORGIA -- A man accused of torturing and killing at least 77 cats is out of jail, but a judge ordered him to find a job, begin intense psychotherapy, and spend his nights at home while awaiting trial.
Mitchell M. Munoz, a 34-year-old unemployed Emory Law School graduate, was released Friday after Judge Wayne Purdom reduced his bond from $75,000 to $25,000 while imposing the restrictions.
Munoz was arrested in October after a photo processor notified police that film dropped off by Munoz showed cats that had been tortured.
Before making the arrest, officers said they discovered photographs of dead kittens, three severed cat tails under a bathroom sink and written diaries documenting when the cats were acquired, how they behaved and what torture and abuse was done to them.
A nylon rope hanging from the bathroom shower rod -- used to hang kittens -- also was found, officers said.
At a hearing Friday, prosecutors said Munoz is dangerous and should be hospitalized. But Judge Purdom clearly doesn't think the torture deaths of nearly 100 animals (or more) is that big of a deal; he sided with Munoz's attorney that the bond be reduced.
No trial date has been set.
(AP - Dec 11, 1989)
Earlier:
Mitchell M. Munoz, a 34-year-old unemployed Emory Law School graduate, was released Friday after Judge Wayne Purdom reduced his bond from $75,000 to $25,000 while imposing the restrictions.
Munoz was arrested in October after a photo processor notified police that film dropped off by Munoz showed cats that had been tortured.
Before making the arrest, officers said they discovered photographs of dead kittens, three severed cat tails under a bathroom sink and written diaries documenting when the cats were acquired, how they behaved and what torture and abuse was done to them.
A nylon rope hanging from the bathroom shower rod -- used to hang kittens -- also was found, officers said.
At a hearing Friday, prosecutors said Munoz is dangerous and should be hospitalized. But Judge Purdom clearly doesn't think the torture deaths of nearly 100 animals (or more) is that big of a deal; he sided with Munoz's attorney that the bond be reduced.
No trial date has been set.
(AP - Dec 11, 1989)
Earlier:
Friday, October 13, 1989
Georgia: Law school graduate who couldn't pass the bar, Mitchell Munoz, 34, charged in torture-killings of 77 cats and kittens.
GEORGIA -- Police charged a law school graduate with torturing and killing 77 cats he obtained through free-kitten newspaper advertisements.
Mitchell Munoz (Mitch Munoz, Mitchell M. Munoz), 34, of DeKalb County was arrested Thursday after police were tipped by an employee of a photo processing plant who saw pictures of the suspect executing the animals in his apartment.
Before making the arrest, officers said they discovered photographs of dead kittens, three severed cat tails under a bathroom sink and written diaries documenting when the cats were acquired, how they behaved and what torture and abuse was done to them.
A nylon rope hanging from the bathroom shower rod -- used to hang kittens -- also was found, officers said.
'It's disgusting and weird,' said police Capt. A.R. King. 'We've had cruelty to animal cases over the years, but nothing this unusual.'
Detective Lanny Mosley said Munoz graduated from Emory University law school but failed to pass the bar examination.
'Isn't it horrible?' said Virginia Wilkinson, an assistant at the DeKalb County Humane Society. 'Isn't it awful? It's made everybody here sick to our stomachs.
'It worries us that his reason was that he was stressed out and just didn't like cats,' she added. 'What if he just didn't like his neighbor?'
Wilkinson said officials at the humane society were disappointed that the charge against Munoz was not more serious than a series of misdemeanors.
'I could be charged with the same thing for driving down the road too fast,' she said. 'If he could do this to cats, he must be really sick.'
Munoz, in custody at the DeKalb County jail, was charged with 77 misdemeanor counts of cruelty to animals. Bond was set at $75,000.
Munoz, unable to hold a job since graduation, told police he obtained the cats by answering newspaper advertisements offering free kittens, authorities said. All but a few of the victims were young kittens.
Police were led to Munoz by a film processing employee who notified animal control officers after reviewing pictures of the kittens being tortured and killed.
The roll of film had been dropped off at a drug store Oct. 9 by Munoz under a false name and address, investigators said.
After identifying Munoz, who appeared in some unrelated pictures on the roll, police searched his apartment.
During their search, Mosley said, officers found evidence that the cats had been killed starting in 1987.
(UPI - Oct 13, 1989)
Mitchell Munoz (Mitch Munoz, Mitchell M. Munoz), 34, of DeKalb County was arrested Thursday after police were tipped by an employee of a photo processing plant who saw pictures of the suspect executing the animals in his apartment.
Before making the arrest, officers said they discovered photographs of dead kittens, three severed cat tails under a bathroom sink and written diaries documenting when the cats were acquired, how they behaved and what torture and abuse was done to them.
A nylon rope hanging from the bathroom shower rod -- used to hang kittens -- also was found, officers said.
'It's disgusting and weird,' said police Capt. A.R. King. 'We've had cruelty to animal cases over the years, but nothing this unusual.'
Detective Lanny Mosley said Munoz graduated from Emory University law school but failed to pass the bar examination.
'Isn't it horrible?' said Virginia Wilkinson, an assistant at the DeKalb County Humane Society. 'Isn't it awful? It's made everybody here sick to our stomachs.
'It worries us that his reason was that he was stressed out and just didn't like cats,' she added. 'What if he just didn't like his neighbor?'
Wilkinson said officials at the humane society were disappointed that the charge against Munoz was not more serious than a series of misdemeanors.
'I could be charged with the same thing for driving down the road too fast,' she said. 'If he could do this to cats, he must be really sick.'
Munoz, in custody at the DeKalb County jail, was charged with 77 misdemeanor counts of cruelty to animals. Bond was set at $75,000.
Munoz, unable to hold a job since graduation, told police he obtained the cats by answering newspaper advertisements offering free kittens, authorities said. All but a few of the victims were young kittens.
Police were led to Munoz by a film processing employee who notified animal control officers after reviewing pictures of the kittens being tortured and killed.
The roll of film had been dropped off at a drug store Oct. 9 by Munoz under a false name and address, investigators said.
After identifying Munoz, who appeared in some unrelated pictures on the roll, police searched his apartment.
During their search, Mosley said, officers found evidence that the cats had been killed starting in 1987.
(UPI - Oct 13, 1989)
Wednesday, August 30, 1989
Florida: Vicious pit bull attacks and kills a cat, mauls another dog and then lunges at animal control officer's window smashing the glass before an officer tries to shoot it
FLORIDA -- A Broward Sheriff's Office deputy on Tuesday shot at an 80-pound pit bull terrier that lunged at a animal control officer who was trying to capture the snarling animal, authorities said.
The dog, which had killed a cat and attacked a dog in the Silver Oaks Mobile Home Park in the 5900 block of Southwest 34th Street near Davie, leaped against a window on Broward County Animal Control Officer Lori Morris's truck, Animal Control Director Alan Davis said.
The dog smashed the window and showered the frightened officer with shards of glass as Morris attempted to hook it with a catch pole, Davis said.
Deputy Sue Sumrall fired one round at the dog but apparently did not injure the animal, which retreated to its yard, authorities said.
"The dog was not shot," Davis said. "The dog was bleeding, but the veteranian seems to indicate he somehow got his toenail cut."
The dog was later taken to the animal control compound, and investigators late Tuesday were trying to locate its owner, Sheriff's Office spokesman Jim Leljedal said.
(Sun Sentinel - August 30, 1989)
The dog, which had killed a cat and attacked a dog in the Silver Oaks Mobile Home Park in the 5900 block of Southwest 34th Street near Davie, leaped against a window on Broward County Animal Control Officer Lori Morris's truck, Animal Control Director Alan Davis said.
The dog smashed the window and showered the frightened officer with shards of glass as Morris attempted to hook it with a catch pole, Davis said.
Deputy Sue Sumrall fired one round at the dog but apparently did not injure the animal, which retreated to its yard, authorities said.
"The dog was not shot," Davis said. "The dog was bleeding, but the veteranian seems to indicate he somehow got his toenail cut."
The dog was later taken to the animal control compound, and investigators late Tuesday were trying to locate its owner, Sheriff's Office spokesman Jim Leljedal said.
(Sun Sentinel - August 30, 1989)
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