Case Details

Kittens thrown from moving vehicle
Kenner, LA (US)

Incident Date: Sunday, Sep 24, 2006
County: Jefferson
Local Map: available
Disposition: Convicted
Charges: Misdemeanor

Abuser/Suspect: Ronald Douglas Lloyd

Case Updates: 1 update(s) available

Case ID: 9992
Classification: Throwing
Animal: cat
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A 40-year-old Metairie man faces charges after he was seen tossing kittens out of moving vehicle.

Jefferson Parish Sheriff's deputies say a witness following behind a vehicle driven by Ronald Douglas Lloyd and saw him throw three small kittens out of the window Sept 24.

The woman told authorities that the last kitten was thrown out in Kenner.

Kenner officers wrote Lloyd a summons for cruelty to animals.

Jefferson Parish Sheriff's deputies took Lloyd into custody and booked him with one count of animal cruelty.

Although officers looked for kittens in the areas where the woman had reported seeing them tossed from the vehicle, they were only able to locate one, in Kenner.

Police say the severely injured kitten later died.

Case Updates

A St. Charles Parish man must serve 40 hours of community service at Jefferson Parish's animal shelter as partial punishment for pleading guilty to throwing kittens from his truck in Metairie and Kenner last year.

Ronald Douglas Lloyd, 41, of St. Rose will get a year of probation but no jail time by pleading guilty to two counts of misdemeanor simple cruelty to animals. Prosecutors reduced the charges Thursday from felony aggravated cruelty to animals, records show.

"They did the appropriate thing and reduced the charges and got a conviction," Lloyd's attorney, Jerry Archer, said Friday.

Police confirmed that two kittens died in the Sept. 10 incident along West Metairie Avenue in Metairie and Kenner. A witness driving behind Lloyd said she saw three or four kittens being tossed. One of them ran away, and evidence of the fourth could not be found.

A six-member jury could not reach a verdict on the felony charges during a trial June 26, and 24th Judicial District Judge Conn Regan declared a mistrial. The felony charges carried a maximum prison sentence of 10 years.

Regan also separately found Lloyd innocent of two misdemeanor simple cruelty counts involving the other two kittens, saying at the time that he felt that animal abandonment was the appropriate charge. The judge said, however, that he found the prosecutor's witness to the incident "credible."

On August 23, Regan suspended two six-month jail terms and ordered the probation, records show.
Source: NOLA.com - Aug 25, 2007
Update posted on Aug 26, 2007 - 9:37PM 

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References

KATC - Sept 25, 2006
Times-Picayune - Sept 12, 2006

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