Animal cruelty

A 19-year-old New Jersey man is facing multiple animal cruelty charges after authorities say three pets suffered severe neglect while in his care, including a severely emaciated dog found dead inside a plastic bag, according to authorities. Aiden Turso, of Scotch Plains, was charged with two counts of third-degree failure to provide necessary care to an animal, leading to its…

NBC New York’s Checkey Beckford reports.

A judge sentenced a New Jersey man to five years in prison for shooting his neighbor’s dog with an air rifle, causing the animal to be euthanized. The sentence was the result of a plea agreement with William Stroemel, 65, of Maple Shade, the Burlington County Prosecutor’s Office said. Stroemel pleaded guilty in April to possession of a weapon...

The couple allegedly told a neighbor they planned to eventually return to pick up the dog, a young male husky that had a severe and infected open wound covering much of its neck when an animal control officer arrived at the home

A Queens man faces 92 counts of animal cruelty after horses, a dog, and other animals in declining health were being kept on a piece of property on Long Island, the Suffolk County SPCA announced Monday. Marlon A. Alzate, 29 and of Elmhurst, was arrested on Thursday by SPCA detectives while he was appearing in a Queens courtroom on a…

A 68-year-old Long Island woman was arrested and charged Wednesday with five counts of animal cruelty after four dogs were found dead and various other pets were found living in squalor inside her residence, according to the Suffolk County Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. According to Roy Gross, chief of the Suffolk County SPCA, Donna Hulse, of…

A Maryland woman has been sentenced to prison for animal cruelty charges after 27 dogs were found dead and another 27 were discovered in poor condition inside a home she rented with her husband

Dozens of hoarded dogs had to be removed Monday from a home in Monmouth County where they had been living in squalor. Medical staff at the Monmouth County SPCA are working on evaluating the 61 dogs that were rescued from living in cruel conditions in Belford. “You couldn’t tell what was the front and what was the back… and now……

More than 60 dogs, some of which were puppies or even pregnant, were rescued from a home that has had similar problems in the past, and the owner is now facing charges. NBC New York’s Gaby Acevedo reports.

Federal officials are investigating an Oklahoma zoo made famous in Netflix’s “Tiger King” series after an animal rights group accused it of neglect.

A Maryland woman will spend 180 days in jail for keeping 66 dogs in deplorable conditions in her home.

The owner of a petting zoo where more than 30 pigs were discovered dead and other animals were found sick or injured last summer has been indicted on several animal cruelty charges, authorities said. The counts against Dennis Sugar, 47, of Branchville, were handed up late last month by a Sussex County grand jury. He was due to be arraigned…

The 36-year-old father of young children was sentenced to a year in prison after he left the dog in the perilous situation following a fight with his ex-girlfriend

A man convicted of putting a puppy in a cage and leaving on the banks of a river during a rising tide after an argument with his girlfriend was sentenced to a year in prison. NBC New York’s Brian Thompson reports.

Officers said they found two dead cats and at least 11 alive cats at the house, and believe there may be as many as 30 cats still hiding at the home

Police and hazmat crew responded to a home in Valley Stream, Long Island, and found two dead cats and at least 11 living cats inside. The woman who lives in the home was taken to the hospital.

A 22-year-old Suffolk County man was charged with animal cruelty for leaving his 2-year-old dog with no care for possibly days, according to the county’s SPCA. Savion A. Redhead, of Amityville, was charged with one count of failure to provide proper sustenance for leaving his dog Princess confined in a bedroom without food and water. Chief Roy Gross of...

The owner of a dog that died after it was left outside in sweltering temperatures for several hours will have to serve a county jail sentence and a probation term. Jonathon Correa, 31, was also ordered Friday to 270 days in the Ocean County Jail as a condition of four years of supervised probation as the result of a plea…

A Kentucky man is facing animal cruelty charges after police say he killed and skinned four of his neighbors’ dogs to make a “doggy coat.” Kentucky State Police arrested 38-year-old Jonathan D. Watkins on December 23rd after being alerted by neighbors.