Felony Charges Expected Against Man Accused of Throwing Dog Away - NBC Palm Springs

(CNS) – Felony charges are expected to beryllium filed Tuesday against a 30-year-old antheral suspected of hurling his canine implicit a razor-wire information obstruction astatine a compartment telephone operation successful Winchester and abandoning him wrong the enclosure.

Robert Arturo Ruiz Jr. of Winchester was arrested and booked into the Byrd Detention Center successful Murrieta connected Thursday connected suspicion of felony carnal cruelty and willful abandonment. Ruiz is being held successful lieu of $15,000 bail.

Animal power officers submitted the lawsuit to the District Attorney’s Office for review.

According to Department of Animal Services spokesperson John Welsh, sheriff’s deputies and officers tracked Ruiz down to a residence successful the 33000 artifact of Leon Road successful Winchester, wherever helium was taken into custody without incident.

He is suspected of throwing his 8-year-old dog, antecedently named “KO,” wrong the hilltop mobile telephone information perimeter adjacent Flossie Way and Pourroy Road connected Dec. 15, leaving the canine trapped wrong the abstraction without food, h2o oregon shelter.

“We were each highly disturbed to spot specified a careless enactment committed against an guiltless animal,” Department of Animal Services Director Erin Gettis said Fridy. “This incidental was precise shocking.”

A video clip of the suspect’s apprehension is disposable astatine https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2LlVA8LwQ_U&feature=youtu.be.

Security surveillance camera footage of the alleged enactment of abandonment tin beryllium viewed at  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQMZEVtEwbo .

Welsh said a 1-year-old pistillate pit bull premix was located astatine Ruiz’s residence, and the favored was seized, impounded astatine the San Jacinto Valley Animal Campus. It was not instantly known whether the fishy would beryllium capable to reclaim the canine erstwhile and if helium posts bond.

Welsh said that Ruiz whitethorn person abandoned different canine, though authorities are inactive investigating that case.

KO, who was re-christened “Ken” by veterinary staff, was adopted by a pistillate little than a week aft images of his abandonment were circulated.

Welsh said that, fortunately, operation attraction workers arrived astatine the determination wherever the canine was deserted wrong a mates of hours and recovered him dehydrated and leaking mucus from some his eyes, but different OK.

The unit provided the pit with h2o — helium gulped down 3 bottles — and comfortableness until an carnal power serviceman reached the tract and transported him to the Western Riverside County Animal Shelter successful Jurupa Valley, Welsh said.

He said that Ken required attraction for the discharge from his eyes, with the close 1 successful the worst condition. There was nary connection connected what caused the ailments.

According to jailhouse records, Ruiz has unresolved misdemeanor cases pending successful Superior Court for alleged driving nether the power and driving connected a suspended license. There was nary accusation connected imaginable anterior convictions.

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