A Texas man is accused of killing his mother’s dog because she wouldn’t let him bring a woman into her home for sex. News 4 San Antonio reports that James Garcia, 39, was arrested after he allegedly threw his mother’s dog, Roxy, 18 feet in his parents’ San Antonio home, causing the dog’s heart to …
Authorities in Tennessee arrested a man on Tuesday for allegedly beating his sister’s dog to death with a hammer. Nicholas Kendall, 19, was charged with aggravated animal cruelty after his sister told police that he killed her 6-year-old female beagle mix because he didn’t want to feed it. Kendall also allegedly told his sister that …
A 6-year-old boy in Texas will likely spend months in the hospital for injuries he reportedly sustained last week when a pit bull attacked him in his yard. KOSA reported that the boy, named Noah, had his scalp torn to the bone, lost both his ears, and had his cheeks ripped open outside of his …
Following the steps of the U.S. House of Representatives, the Senate unanimously passed a bill on Tuesday that would make animal cruelty a federal felony. The Preventing Animal Cruelty and Torture (PACT) Act (H.R.724) is headed to President Donald Trump’s desk following its approval by both chambers of Congress. The bipartisan bill was co-sponsored by Senators …
Authorities said one or more of a deceased Michigan woman’s pit bulls are responsible for her mauling death. Officers with the Bay City Department of Public Safety reportedly found Brandy Joy O’Dell, 41, deceased in her residence shortly before 3 p.m. on November 1. The Bay County Medical Examiner’s Office’s autopsy report stated that her …
A pit bull reportedly mauled a 4-year-old boy to death on Tuesday at his Michigan home. Citing Hazel Park police, WWJ reported that officers who responded to the scene found the dog still attacking Benjamin Cobb, prompting them to deploy their tasers to rescue the child. Cobb, who sustained serious injuries to his body and …
A K-9 officer stabbed multiple times during a barricade situation in Las Vegas, Nevada, over the weekend is on the mend, Las Vegas Metro Police report, and the man accused of stabbing him is in jail. Joseph Arquilla, 27, has been charged with one count of mistreatment of a police animal and six counts of …
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The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) announced on Friday that it had charged two men with poaching thousands of Florida turtles and selling them, with their final destination to be largely international markets. Michael Boesenberg, 39, and Michael Clemons, 23, have each been charged with multiple counts related to the enterprise, the FWC …
A 21-year-old man was viciously mauled to death by a pair of pit bulls earlier this week, leaving his family with more questions than answers, KTXL-TV reports. Authorities say they believe the two dogs — 13-year-old Beze and 5-year-old Saxon — attacked Dustin Bryan on Monday morning at a home in Modesto, California. Relatives found …
Brian Gundy was having a pretty good 67th birthday. He’d just finished a talk at the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Library in downtown San Jose, California, and was packing up to go home and then enjoy a celebratory dinner. His load was heavy, so he set his duffel bag in a no parking area …
Three Louisiana women have been criminally charged for allegedly sawing off a 2-year-old dachshund’s hind legs in what authorities called a “horrific” case of animal abuse. St. Tammany Parish Sheriff’s Office said in a statement that the dog, named Buddy, was shot in February. The dog’s owners—a 50-year-old woman, her 17-year-old daughter—reported the incident at …
