Dog thrown from 6th floor window
Syracuse, NY (US)Incident Date: Sunday, Nov 27, 2005
County: Onondaga
Disposition: Convicted
Defendant/Suspect: Charles M. Thomas
Case Updates: 1 update(s) available
A 17-year-old charged with throwing a pit bull from a sixth-floor apartment window told police he did it because he was bored. Police charged Charles M. Thomas of Rochester with aggravated cruelty to animals, a felony, and false impersonation, a misdemeanor.
City police said Thomas initially identified himself as someone else while being questioned. The incident occurred at his mother's residence in Syracuse.
Thomas told police he was angry at the dog because it had snapped at him a few days earlier. The dog, which died, belonged to a roommate.
Case UpdatesA Rochester man pleaded guilty to throwing a dog out of a window in Syracuse. Charles Thomas, now 18, admitted he threw the animal out a sixth-floor window in November.
Witnesses say they called the Police after a 2-year old child saw the dog fall from the apartment window.
The dog died shortly after.
Thomas pleaded guilty to a felony count of aggravated animal cruelty and faces five years of probation and six months in jail. | Source: News 10 Now - July 5, 2006
Update posted on Jul 5, 2006 - 6:10PM |
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