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After Dumping Dead Dog's Body, Trainer Sent Phony Photos To North Reading Owners: Police
A Connecticut woman is facing multiple charges after police found several sick dogs she had been paid to train stuck in crates with little food or water, which led to one of their deaths, authorities said.
Middlesex County resident Josephine Ragland, age 28, of Haddam, who is charged with four counts of animal abuse, turned herself in to police on Monday, Sept. 16, Connecticut State Police said. Her mother, Jacqueline Witt, was arrested last week in the case.
Related: Haddam Woman Facing Multiple Animal Cruelty Charges
A Massachusetts family from North Rea…
Dead Goats, Chickens: More Than 160 Sick Animals Seized From Mass Woman's Home, DA Says
A 77-year-old Middlesex County woman has been charged after police found 162 animals inside her home, some of which were dead, while many others were malnourished, sick, or covered in bugs, police said.
Ruth Maxant-Schulz, 77, of Ayer, was charged with 30 counts of animal cruelty following a police raid at her home, the Middlesex District Attorney said on Monday, April 8, after her arraignment.
Officers were called to her Taft Street home on Feb. 20 and found several animals roaming outside the house.
However inside, things were much less bucolic.
Police returned several…
Mass Man Stabbed Dog To Death With Grill Fork In 'Hideous' Killing: Police
A Plymouth County man stabbed his 60-pound Bull-Terrior named Brutus to death with a grill prong after his attempt to poison the animal with fentanyl failed, authorities said.
Jonathan Paluzzi, 44, of Kingston, is charged with multiple counts of felony animal cruelty and possession of a Class A drug (fentanyl), Kingston police said in a Facebook post. He is being held on a "significant bail," the post said.
Officers were called to an apartment complex on Kingston Collection Way around 1 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 31, after his neighbor heard screaming, crying, a dog whining,…
Boston Woman Facing Animal Cruelty Charges For 6-Year-Old Pit Bull's Death
A Boston woman was arraigned in court on an animal cruelty charge stemming from the death of her dog earlier this dog, the Suffolk County District Attorney's Office said.
Natividad Pizzaro, age 37, was ordered to not own or work with animals after her dog, named Beauty, died in February and from frostbite and severe emaciation, the office reports.
A veterinarian at Angell Animal Medical Center told law enforcement that an owner, later identified as Pizzaro, had brought in her dead six-year-old female Pit Bull-type dog on Feb. 2, the office reports.
The dog, late…
