Full Name: Standley E Bryant
Gender: Male
Race: Black
Birthdate: 03/29/1954
Arrest Age: 63
Arrest Date:12/13/2017
Arrest Time: 2:18 PM
Location: Hamilton County, Ohio
Charges
#1 CRUELTY TO ANIMALS
#2 MENACING M4
In that case, Standley Bryant was arrested and charged with Animal Cruelty, accused of beating a young dog in the head with a shovel, hitting it several times in the head and then picking it up by the chain it was attached to, strangling it.
Once arrested, Bryant went on to threaten physical harm to people, officers said. Bryant said he would shoot his neighbor in the face and kill her kids and family after police released him from jail. Bryant believed she called in the alleged abuse.
Bryant was given $50,000 bond for one count of animal cruelty and $50,000 bond for one count of menacing.
MASSACHUSETTS -- A Peabody man awaiting trial for “severe physical abuse of a puppy” is back behind bars after being hit with new larceny and gun charges, officials said Monday.
John Leger, 32, was arraigned in Peabody District Court on fresh charges Friday, including carrying a firearm without a license and carrying a loaded firearm without a license and unlawful possession of ammunition, according to Essex District Attorney Jonathan Blodgett’s office.
He was ordered held without bail and will return to court for a dangerousness hearing Thursday.
According to Blodgett’s office, State Police nabbed Leger on Friday on warrants alleging that he charged HVAC equipment from FW Webb Plumbing Supply to an account he was not authorized to use.
Troopers also seized a loaded .45 caliber Smith & Wesson handgun from Leger’s vehicle, Blodgett’s office said.
Leger’s legal troubles began over the winter, when he was indicted on three counts of animal cruelty and witness intimidation.
“The indictments stem from Leger’s severe physical abuse of a puppy, and threats made to a witness,” Blodgett’s office said in a statement. The puppy, named Bryson, was transferred to the Animal Rescue League of Boston.
On Nov. 14, 2016, a woman called Peabody's animal control officer to describe seeing a bearded man repeatedly punching a dog.
The woman said she was on her porch when she heard a man yelling and the sound of whimpering. She then saw the man punch the dog, and watched as the dog scrambled underneath the truck.
The bearded man, later identified as Leger, dragged the dog out by its collar and punched it several more times, then put the dog in the cab of the truck and went back into a barbershop. The woman said she went over to the truck and saw the dog shaking. After a few moments, the woman said, Leger came out of the shop and confronted her, yelling, "Trying to do your good deed for the day?"
Leger’s bail conditions had included a provision that he not reside with any animals, the statement said. But after he was booked on the new charges Friday, authorities learned he has been living with a dog in violation of his bail, prosecutors said.
A spokesman for the Animal Rescue League said Bryson is “doing very well” and “thriving.”
Full Name: Nicholas Isaac Ingram
Alias: Nick Ingram
Date: 06/01/2017
Personal Information
Gender: Male
Race: Black
Height: 5'09"
Weight: 160 lbs
Hair Color: BLACK
Eye Color: BROWN
Location: Marion County, Oregon
Charges
#1 ANIMAL ABUSE I
#2 TAMPER WITH A WITNESS
ARIZONA -- Police have arrested a Phoenix man who allegedly used a sledgehammer to kill a dog that had been hit by a car.
Ivan Lawrence (Erick Lawrence), 49, was booked on one count of felony animal abuse under §ARS 13-2910 and a violation of city code for failing to render aid.
This goes back to 9 p.m. Saturday. The dog was hit by one -- possibly two vehicles -- in the area of 37th and Oak streets.
"A few people, including children, were gathered around the injured animal when the suspect, 49 year old [sic] Ivan Lawrence, retrieved a sledgehammer from his home nearby and struck the dog twice in the head, killing it," explained Sgt. Vince Lewis of the Phoenix Police Department.
It's not clear if the dog, Beau, might have survived being hit had she been taken to a veterinarian.
"The dog appeared to have an injured front leg and was weight bearing on 3 [sic] legs and was able to move with the assistance of the other dog that was standing nearby in a protective capacity," according to court paperwork.
"The injured dog was panting and appeared to need medical treatment. The witnesses planned to take the dog to a 24 hour [sic] medical clinic after they established that the owner was not home at the time of the incident."
Lawrence's court paperwork notes that there are "a number" of 24-hour animals hospitals relatively close to where the dog was hit.
A woman came from down the street and said "she would get her husband because he would know what to do."
Lawrence showed up, sledgehammer in hand, a few minutes later. By that time, Beau was lying by the front door of its owner's home.
"Witnesses reported that Ivan proceeded to say he was going to kill the dog with the sledgehammer," the arresting officers wrote in his probable cause for arrest statement. "One witness attempted to verbally dissuade Ivan from killing the dog for approximately 10 minutes to no avail. The witness reported that Ivan was swinging the hammer in an aggressive manner and said he had a gun.
"The witness reported that she told Ivan that she and her mother were going to take the dog to the veterinarian nearby but Ivan said he was going to kill the dog and put it out of its misery," the probable cause statement continues.
"By this time two children were standing nearby from the neighborhood pleading with Ivan to refrain from hitting the dog with a sledgehammer."
The witness told police she was intimidated by Lawrence, enough so that she backed away. That, according to the witness is when Lawrence approached the injured dog.
"The witness [said] the dog was not whining or yelping prior to being struck in the head but the dog yelped loudly when the suspect swung and hit the dog in the head the first time," reads the court paperwork. "The witness reported that the suspect then swung the hammer a second time and hit the dog in the head."
Another witness called the police and officers documented the incident.
"This information was seen by Phoenix Police Animal Cruelty detectives later that week who responded and recontacted the dog owner and suspect," Lewis said.
According to Jessica Headley, who posted about the incident on a public Facebook group called Arizona Animal Rescue Alliance, the owners of the dog, including six children, got home about 10 minutes later to find their pet dead in the doorway of their home.
"She didn't have to die the way she did," Headley wrote in her post, which she has updated several times since the incident. "I begged and begged and pleaded for him to not go on property and do it. ... I couldn't stop him."
"[The owners] were devastated to learn that their pet Beau had been killed in this manner as they would have preferred their pet had been treated at an animal hospital as the witnesses were trying to do," the arresting officer wrote.
Lewis said investigators established probable cause to arrest Lawrence on Wednesday, including being positively identified in a photo lineup by a 10-year-old who witnessed the incident.
"The child reportedly has had crying episodes and nightmares as a result of the incident," according to Lawrence's court paperwork.
When detectives talked to Lawrence about what happened that night, "he confirmed that he euthanized the dog as a mercy killing."
"The suspect admitted he was reckless in killing the dog in this manner and with children present to witness it," reads the arresting officer's report.
Although he claimed to be doing what was "needed" for Beau "to put the dog out of his misery," he told police it's not something he would want somebody to do to his dog.
"The suspect agreed that any reasonable person would have an issue if they saw what he did," court paperwork reads. "The suspect admitted that if his dog were hit by a car he would object to someone doing what he did to his own pet.
During his initial court appearance Thursday, Lawrence only had one question for Commissioner Paula Williams, who set a secured appearance bond of $2,000. One condition of his release is that he not "have contact with any animals under any circumstances." He wanted to know about the time frame for that because he has pets.
Under Arizona law, Lawrence, who served with the National Guard for a time, could face a minimum of three months in jail and a maximum of 18 if convicted of a class 6 felony and 6 months to two years if convicted of a class 5 felony.
ARREST INFO:
Full Name: Ivan Erick Lawrence
Gender: Male
Height: 5'09"
Weight: 170 lbs
Hair Color: BROWN
Eye Color: GREEN
Arrest Date: 04/19/2017
Arrest Agency: Maricopa County, Arizona
Charges
#1 ANIMAL-INTENTL CRUEL MISTREAT
#2 ANIMAL-INTENTL CRUEL MISTREAT
DETAILS FROM THE ARREST REPORT:
ACCORDING TO THE WITNESS THE CHILDREN WERE SCREAMING AND YELLING AT THE SUSPECT TO STOP. THE WITNESSES REPORTED THAT ATTEMPTS WERE MADE TO DISSUADE THE SUSPECT FROM HITTING THE DOG IN THE HEAD FOR A PERIOD OF TIME THAT LASTED BETWEEN 8-12 MINUTES BUT THE SUSPECTS WIFE/GIRLFRIEND REPEATEDLY EGGED AND ENCOURAGED THE SUSPECT DO IT.
IT WAS TOWARD THE END OF THE DISPUTE THAT THE SUSPECT MENTIONED HE HAD A GUN AND SWUNG THE SLEDGEHAMMER IN A WAY THAT CAUSED THE WITNESS TO STEP OUT OF THE WAY DUE TO HER FELLING INTIMIDATED AND THE SUSPECT PROCEEDED TO APPROACH THE DOG WHICH WAS LYING BY HIS OWNERS FRONT DOOR AND SWUNG AND HIT THE DOG IN THE HEAD.
ACCORDING TO THE WITNESS THE DOG WAS NOT WHINING OR YELPING PRIOR TO BEING STRUCK IN THE HEAD BUT THE DOG YELPED LOUDLY WHEN THE SUSPECT SWUNG AND HIT THE DOG IN THE HEAD THE FIRST TIME.
THE WITNESS REPORTED THAT THE SUSPECT THEN SWUNG THE HAMMER A SECOND TIME AND HIT THE DOG IN THE HEAD. AFTER THE DOG WAS HIT THE SECOND TIME THE WITNESS REPORTED THAT THE DOGS BODY WAS MOVED FROM THE STRIKE AND THE HEAD WAS CANTED IN AN ABNORMAL POSITION.
THE WITNESS REPORTED THAT THE DOG WAS NOT BLEEDING IN A NOTICEABLE MANNER PRIOR TO BEING HIT BY THE SUSPECT BUT A LARGE QUANTITY OF BLOOD CAME OUT OF THE DOGS HEAD AFTER HE WAS HIT BY THE SUSPECT.
ANOTHER WITNESS HAD CALLED THE POLICE DURING THE INTERIM AND REPORTED THAT NUMEROUS EFFORTS WERE MADE TO STOP THE SUSPECT FROM KILLING THE INJURED DOG WITH A SLEDGEHAMMER. THE DOG OWNERS ARRIVED HOME A SHORT TIME LATER TO DISCOVER THEIR FAMILY PET WAS LYING IN THE ENTRYWAY IN A POOL OF BLOOD DECEASED.
THE SUSPECT DOES NOT HAVE ANY MEDICAL TRAINING PERTAINING TO ANIMALS AND ADMITTED THAT IT WAS POSSIBLE HE COULD HIT THE DOG AND IT NOT DIE AFTER THE FIRST HIT, HOWEVER THE SUSPECT CLAIMED THAT HE WAS IN THE NATIONAL GUARD AND AN EX ATHLETE WHICH WOULD ALLOW HIM TO KNOW THAT THE DOG NEEDED TO BE KILLED.
THE SUSPECT SAID AFTER HE KILLED THE DOG HE WENT HOME AND DID NOT CALL THE POLICE OR WAIT TO SPEAK WITH THE FAMILY WHO OWNED THE DOG. THE DOG OWNERS ARRIVED HOME WITH THEIR SIX CHILDREN TO DISCOVER THEIR PET WAS DECEASED.
OKLAHOMA -- Back in October 2008, Cody Wayne Hahn, then 20, was arrested and charged with 3 counts of felony animal cruelty in a high-profile case involving a dog that he was accused of tying to his pickup truck and then intentionally speeding down a gravel road, skinning the dog alive.
At one point, witnesses said, the dog came free of its collar. The SUV stopped, and the driver got out, put the leash back in the SUV and then sped off, leaving the screaming dog in agony.
The Creek County Sheriff's Office found the SUV the next day and questioned Hahn, who denied any knowledge of the incident.
Witnesses picked Hahn from a photo lineup as the man who was driving the SUV, authorities said.
Hahn was on leave from the Army at the time of the abuse. By the time he was charged, he had returned to his station in Korea.
Local authorities notified the Army about his arrest warrants, and Hahn was put under military arrest in Korea and returned to Sapulpa on Dec. 23 to be booked into jail.
He was released on $6,000 bond in a matter of hours.
Some reports said that the dog belonged to his then-girlfriend Rikki Leigh Seritt, 18, who, was also charged with felony animal cruelty as well as two misdemeanor counts of obstructing an officer.
Once charged with the crime, Hahn used high-priced legal counsel to help him ‘get off.’
Animal welfare organizations posted a reward to attract additional witnesses and kept a vigil at each courtroom appearance. Cody Hahn appeared grinning in all photos and never acknowledged the severity of the crime for which he was accused.
Ultimately in 2010 Hahn texted an intimidating message to a witness. By that point the family members who had gathered to support him had largely vanished and he was finally represented by a court-appointed attorney.
Hahn’s early legal team tried every angle to challenge Oklahoma’s anti-cruelty statutes. At one point attorney Creekmore Wallace of Sapulpa dramatically claimed that if statutes protected a stray (thereby valueless) dog from being skinned alive, possibly our statutes could be used to criminalize someone who stepped on a bug.
Hahn’s arrogance lost, and his legal counsel’s maneuvering failed. He was convicted in January 2012 of animal cruelty. He was sentenced to a total of five years, including one-year in the county jail (probably only served about 3-4 months) and then was let out to serve the remainder of his sentence on probation.
Even though Defendants are warned that if they get themselves arrested while they're on probation, they're going to spend the rest of their sentence in jail, that doesn't happen often. In fact, records show than Hahn got himself arrested in December 2016, but it doesn't appear that they extended his sentence any for violating the terms of his probation.
Name: HAHN, CODY WAYNE
DOB: 8/18/1988
Gender: M
Race: W
Height: 5′ 8″ (1.73 m)
Weight: 175 lb (79 kg)
Hair Color: N/A
Eye Color: N/A
Booking ID: 20161209069
Arrest Date: 12/09/2016 at 20:02
Booking Date: 12/09/2016 at 20:27
Release Date: N/A
Arrested By: TCSO / KACZYNSKI
Address: 4650 E ADMIRAL PL APT. 226, TULSA OK 00000
DLM: 1246388
Assigned Cell: J9-KK-1
Description: HOLD/CREEK COUNTY OKLAHOMA
Court date: 12/09/2016
Bond type: Hold W/O Bond
Bond amount: $0.00
I'm posting this today because Cody Wayne Hahn is now off probation. We'll see if he obtained some mental health counseling in the past five years because someone who intentionally tortures and abuses animals are prone to do it again, possibly to children or adults. His behavior during his criminal case - grinning in all of his mugshots and to the media - was bizarre in itself.
Offender: Cody W. Hahn
Gender: Male
Race: White
Height: 5 ft 8 in
Weight: 154 lbs
Hair Color: Brown
Eye Color: Green
Birth Date: 08/18/1988
OK DOC#: 730458
Court: CREEK COUNTY COURT
Offense: CRUELTY TO ANIMALS
Conviction date: 01/26/2012
Term: 5 Years
- 1 year county jail incarceration, 4 years probation
Term code: P&PSUS (4 YEARS SUSPENDED)
Sentence begins: 01/26/2012
Sentence ends: 01/25/2017
And what happened to the poor dog? Well, there's good news. The dog was renamed Sammi, recovered from its horrific injuries and was adopted to a great home.
Isaac Bond spotted Sammy the dog at a veterinarian's office after his abuse at the hands of Cody Hahn.
"He had no hair and he was pretty much hairless on the arms. Scars were open and pus was coming out. It was nasty. Because how cut up he was and no one wanted to touch him and he just had that one look on his face, 'take me home.'"
Sammy walks with a limp now and may need to have his left, front leg amputated some day.
Hahn also was sentenced to pay back $3,000 in vet bills accumulated for the dog's care.
What about Cody's then-girlfriend Rikki Leigh Seritt, who was also completely involved in this horrific crime?
AUSTRALIA -- A blood-spattered driveway is a stark reminder of a vicious dog attack that wounded three people, including a police officer.
Not even tasers were enough to subdue the three savage dogs who attacked Diane, 43, and her partner Peter, 48, outside their Penrith home in western Sydney on Wednesday night.
The animal's owner, Kirk Wake, 29, has been charged after failing to keep the dogs locked up, according to 9 News.
Two of the dogs were described as being of American Staffordshire Pit Bull type dogs.
The three victims were taken to Nepean Hospital for treatment after Peter suffered severe bite wounds to both arms and legs while Diane was bitten on the leg and hip.
Their neighbor Marie was also bitten while attempting to intervene in the attack.
A decorated police officer who rushed to the Parker Street scene suffered a dislocated shoulder and deep bite to her leg after two of the dogs knocked her to the ground.
Inspector Kylie Koenig from Penrith Local Area Command said the officer's leg wound went through to the bone and that she would need surgery.
'There was a young child that was present at the time,' Inspector Koenig said.
'They were extremely vicious dogs that required police to utilize OC spray (pepper spray) numerous times and even resort to the use of a Taser, which had very little effect.'
Other officers pepper-sprayed the dogs in an effort to stop the attack until a council ranger was able to capture the animals.
Don't the police have guns in Australia?
As of Thursday afternoon, the dogs were being held by Penrith Council, where a decision was made to destroy them, according to 9 News.
Kirk Wake allegedly threatened a senior constable after he was told the dogs had been taken to the pound.
The 29-year-old and his 31-year-old girlfriend, Shelley Hoffman, were both due to face Penrith Local Court on Thursday.
The 31-year-old woman is accused of intimidating neighbors and breaching bail conditions.
PENNSYLVANIA -- Several minutes after Gerald D. Walker Jr. was convicted Thursday of animal cruelty for starving a pit bull until it weighed just 14 pounds, his grandmother was charged with threatening a witness against him.
Joann Pinno, 72, of Penn Hills was arrested outside the courtroom of Allegheny County Common Pleas Judge Anthony M. Mariani.
The gray-haired woman was walking out of the courtroom when she leaned over and told Kimberly Maloney, “Go ahead be laughing, because ... it ain’t over.”
“Did you hear that? She threatened me,” Ms. Maloney told court personnel.
Ms. Pinno was arrested by Pittsburgh Police Officer Christine Luffey, who had investigated and earlier arrested Mr. Walker on a charge of animal cruelty. She was charged with making terroristic threats and intimidating a witness.
After several hours of testimony in a non-jury trial Thursday, the judge found Mr. Walker, 20, guilty of a misdemeanor count of animal cruelty. The judge sentenced him to 18 months of probation, fined him $1,000 plus court costs, and said he cannot own animals while on probation.
Assistant District Attorney Deborah Jugan proved that Mr. Walker’s conduct “was willful and malicious,” the judge said. “This dog was not fed for a long period of time” and “was tied to a door with a four-foot leash. Mr. Walker, I want to emphasize you eventually did the right thing which is why you are not going to jail.”
The “right thing,” the judge said, was Mr. Walker agreeing to turn the emaciated dog over to Officer Luffey and Edward Mitchell, humane officer for the Western Pennsylvania Humane Society, on Jan. 21. He was arrested in February.
Mr. Walker could have been sentenced to as much as two years in jail.
Mr. Walker and his family had called the 3-year-old dog “Ladybug” or “Lady.” The Humane Society named her “Effie” and made her the poster dog in an ongoing campaign to push for stiffer penalties and jail time for animal abusers.
Assistant public defender Joseph Paletta said Mr. Walker thought the dog was losing weight because she had “worms”. At times he didn’t have money to feed the dog, he said, calling Mr. Walker’s behavior “negligent and wrong but not willful or malicious.”
Ms. Maloney testified that she worked at the same company with Tia Matthews, Mr. Walker’s mother. She said she had earlier “pet sat” Ladybug at her own house, and had given the family dog food, flea medications and money to care for the dog, which weighed about 40 pounds at that time.
When she offered to adopt Ladybug because she was not being regularly walked or fed, Mr. Walker said no, Ms. Matthews testified.
Mr. Walker’s mother faces trial next week on charges that she threatened Ms. Maloney after she testified against Mr. Walker earlier this year at a preliminary hearing in the same case.
Effie went to the Humane Society on Jan. 21 and was sent for emergency surgery on Jan. 22 after she vomited the food and water she was given.
Veterinarian Jessica Ogden, a surgical resident at Pittsburgh Veterinary Specialty and Emergency Center in Ohio Township, said Effie’s stomach and intestines were blocked by cloth, an orange, pieces of plastic, small bones and corn kernels.
There was no food in Effie’s stomach, no fat on her body, and her muscles were atrophied, Dr. Ogden testified. “It would likely to take three to four weeks weeks” for a dog to get that thin, she said. “We were concerned she would not make it through the surgery” because of her low weight.
The dog’s condition was reported by William E. Stewart, a property manager for the owners of the building where Mr. Walker lived in Homewood. While inspecting for rodent infestation at Mr. Walker’s apartment, he saw the dog, took her photo and emailed it to the Humane Society.
At the time of his arrest, Mr. Walker had moved and was living with an aunt and the dog in Wilkinsburg.
Effie is still at the Humane Society shelter on the North Shore. She weighs 43 pounds and has made a full recovery.
PENNSYLVANIA -- A Pennsylvania man has been found guilty of starving a pit bull until it weighed 14 pounds.
Twenty-year-old Gerald Walker Jr., of Wilkinsburg, was convicted of misdemeanor animal cruelty by a Pittsburgh judge on Thursday after a non-jury trial. He was sentenced to 18 months of probation and must pay a $1,000 fine.
Walker is also barred from owning or taking care of any animals.
Western Pennsylvania Humane Society police officer Ed Mitchell and Pittsburgh police seized the dog in January after receiving a tip from a maintenance worker that the dog was getting thin.
Veterinarians say the dog had a bowel obstruction that included bits of cloth and plastic [that it had eaten because it was starving to death]. The 3-year-old dog now weighs 43 pounds.
Gerald's defense is that he "couldn't afford"
to feed his dog. Doesn't look like
baby boy Gerald missed any meals...
Walker's attorney says his client "couldn't always afford food for the dog".
This attorney needs to get a bonus from his client for actually have the conjones to say this to the judge... he couldn't always afford food for the dog... All the judge had to do was take a look at his client, Defendant Gerald Walker Jr., and see that that tub of lard NEVER FORGOT TO FEED HIMSELF! Maybe if he weren't eating all the food he might've had some left over to feed his skeletal dog.
Meanwhile, his animal abuser enabling mommy, Tia Matthews, is in legal trouble herself after threatening a witness.
Matthews declined to comment as she left the courtroom after her hearing. She told Pittsburgh's Action News 4, "You all want to edit everything that I say," and described her charges as "bogus."
