Cops: NJ Man Hammered Nails to Hurt Neighbor's Dogs

Suspect receives second summons in less than a year

Updated 9:47 PM EDT, Tue, Feb 10, 2009

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A New Jersey man is facing animal cruelty charges.

David Lench, 50, faces the charge for a second time. He's accused of hammering double rows of three-inch nails into a wooden picket fence so they poked out to an area where his neighbor's three German Shepherds would roam.

Michael Flynn notified Middletown Police Sunday morning that the face of one of his dogs was punctured and bloodied. When he followed the trail of blood, Flynn found the nails on the fence separating his property from Lench's.

Flynn said that last month, his teenage son saw Lench hammering away and asked him what was up. Lench said he was fixing the fence, the teenage son said.

Last year, Lench was fined after pleading guilty to having left moth balls in the same area, in an attempt to harm the dogs.

First Published: Feb 10, 2009 2:13 PM EDT

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