Dog fatally stabbed, caught up in drug debt
Boston, MA (US)Incident Date: Tuesday, Nov 15, 2005
County: Suffolk
Disposition: Alleged
Alleged: Darryl Mack
Case Updates: 1 update(s) available
A Boston man was arrested November 15, 2005 and charged with fatally stabbing a terrier whose owner allegedly owed him money for illegal drugs, police said.
Darryl Mack, 40, was identified by the dog's owner and arrested at a Brighton address on cruelty to animal and home invasion charges, police said. He was scheduled to be arraigned Nov 16 in Roxbury District Court.
About 11:30 a.m., police responded to a breaking-and-entering call on Calumet Street in Boston's Mission Hill section, where they found the dog and its owner, whose name was not released. The dog, identified by a neighbor as Romulus, had multiple stab wounds, and the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals pronounced him dead at the scene, police said. No weapon was recovered, police said.
In a statement to police, the dog owner said Mack entered his home because he was owed money for drugs the dog owner had purchased. The dog's owner told police he was hiding in the bathroom when he heard his dog squealing. As the suspect left, he said the dog owner would suffer the same fate, police said.
The neighbor, who overheard the incident and declined to be identified, said everyone in the neighborhood could hear the dog's yelping. She added that the dog was a neighborhood favorite, often nicknamed Toto after the dog in the Wizard of Oz movie, and stood no more than 6 inches off the ground.
David Procopio, a spokesman for Suffolk District Attorney Daniel F. Conley, said in a telephone interview that authorities take crimes against animals seriously.
''Animals, too, have rights of their own protected under the law, and we don't take that lightly," he said. ''The fact that a person has the capacity to hurt an animal means they quite possibly also have the capacity to hurt a human being."
Case UpdatesA man accused of stabbing a dog to death was ordered held on $10,000 cash bail at his arraignment November 16, 2005 in Roxbury District Court, according to Suffolk District Attorney Daniel F. Conley.
Darryl Mack, 40, of Boston was charged with animal cruelty and home invasion; he allegedly broke into a Mission Hill residence on Calumet Street to collect a $100 drug debt about 11:30 a.m. November 16, 2005. Mack allegedly stabbed the resident's dog and declared that its owner would suffer the same fate. Mack was arrested at his residence in Brighton, and the dog was pronounced dead at Angell Memorial Hospital. Mack, who is scheduled to return to court Dec. 21 for a pretrial hearing, owes the court probation fees for a 2004 larceny conviction, authorities said. | Source: Boston.Com - November 17, 2005
Update posted on Nov 17, 2005 - 3:44PM |
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