Cat tied to cinderblock, drowned
Largo, FL (US)Incident Date: Thursday, Mar 15, 2007
County: Monroe
Disposition: Alleged
Alleged: Brenda Garland
Case Updates: 1 update(s) available
A woman from Seminole is accused of intentionally drowning a cat. The Pinellas County Sheriff's office arrested Brenda Garland on animal cruelty charges.
A witness said the 47-year-old Garland threw a brown cat into a retention pond March 15 night at the Green Meadows mobile home park.
Someone from the SPCA found the cat with a cinder block tied to its legs. Deputies said they're not sure if the cat belonged to anyone.
Case UpdatesPinellas deputies say someone witnessed the incident. Charlene Evans recently talked to Garland, "She told me she threw a cat in there because she was sick and tired of the cats messing with her pit bulls."
Bay News 10 talked to Garland as she was installing security cameras outside her home, "So Brenda you're saying you didn't drown the cat? So how does it make you feel when people are accusing you of doing it?" She replied, "Pretty bad considering I have a clean record." She says neighbors are lying because they want her to move, "It wasn't a cat it was a fruit rat you want to see the damage it did to my house."
Neighbors say more than a dozen cats have gone missing from this neighborhood within the last two months and they believe Garland is to blame. Carla Christian says her cat is also missing, "I think that she probably got a hold of them and drowned them and I think it's heart wrenching for me as it is for him too, because that's like family."
Neighbors believe this incident has cast a dark shadow on their usually friendly neighborhood, "She doesn't like kids either so why would it make a difference?" So as Recchi and others wonder what happened to the other cats. They also worry about all the kids who live here. | Source: Tampa Bay's 10 - March 18, 2007
Update posted on Mar 19, 2007 - 4:07PM |
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