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Cocaine Chihuahuas: Long Island Man Arrested, Allegedly Drugged Puppies, SPCA Says
A Long Island man has been arrested and charged after his puppies were found to have ingested cocaine and fentanyl, officials reported.
Port Jefferson Station resident Adam Dziomba, aged 53, was arrested on Friday, June 16 for animal cruelty charges, detectives with the Suffolk County SPCA announced.
SPCA officers responded to a local animal hospital to find that Dziomba’s two chihuahua puppies, Freddy and Tonto, were suffering symptoms of a cocaine overdose.
The puppies are both 15 weeks old.
Narcan was given to the dogs to reverse the overdoses, as cocaine can be lethal to dogs.
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