Burned cat found dead in roasting pan
Ogden, UT (US)Incident Date: Wednesday, Nov 22, 2006
County: Weber
Charges: Misdemeanor
Disposition: Open
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An Ogden business owner found a charred cat atop a pan of rice and vegetables outside his entrance Wednesday morning.
The cat was in an aluminum turkey-size roasting pan, found at about 10 a.m. outside Roy's Cars and RVs at 1764 Washington Blvd., said Ogden Police Lt. David Tarran. "There were green bell peppers and sliced onions all on a bed of rice," he said. "It looked just like the cat had been cooked."
Weber County Animal Services took the cat to an examination facility in Logan to determine whether it was alive or dead when it was mutilated, and Tarran said that would become the key piece of information in the case.
"If it was alive, then we're looking at an animal-cruelty case, and if it was dead, I'm not sure there is anything we can charge them with," he said. However, police have very few leads in the case and have turned the investigation over to animal services to follow.
Investigators photographed the incident. The aluminum pan was "booked for safekeeping" into evidence, Tarran said, in case it is needed in the future for fingerprints or as evidence against the perpetrators.
Tarran said it is impossible to speculate whether the perpetrators had a vendetta against the car salesman or if it was just a mindless prank.
"I can't even begin to understand who would do such a thing and why," he said.
Animal cruelty is a misdemeanor in Utah and is punishable by fines and minimal jail time, depending on the case and number of counts. References
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