Texas man arrested for allegedly stealing neighbors' dogs, killing them

A antheral in Texas has been arrested and charged with cruelty to non-livestock animals by adopting pets and past allegedly sidesplitting them.

The Bowie County Sheriff’s Office was alerted connected Oct. 3 astir respective dogs missing from section homes. One of the callers said a suspected canine thief lived successful the area.

As deputies canvased the Simms area, they went to the location wherever Stuart Duncan Hammonds and his woman lived. They smelled what seemed to beryllium decaying animals, KSLA reported.

Stuart Duncan Hammonds, 24, has been charged with 12 counts of cruelty to non-livestock animals. (Bowie County Correctional Center)

Deputies recovered 7 carnal carcasses astir the location and barn. They recovered skeletal remains, 12 of them identified arsenic dogs. Some of those canine skeletons had caput trauma, a motion that they'd possibly been shot.

The sheriff’s bureau said they judge Hammonds killed 4 of the dogs portion helium was enraged successful a combat with his girlfriend, and they said a witnesser confirmed to them that helium killed each 12 dogs.

Judge gavel, scales of justness and instrumentality books successful court. (Brian A. Jackson/South Florida Sun Sentinel) (Stuart Duncan Hammonds, 24, was arrested and charged with 12 counts of cruelty to non-livestock animals, and his enslaved has been acceptable astatine $100,000.)

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Hammonds was arrested and charged with 12 counts of cruelty to non-livestock animals, and his enslaved has been acceptable astatine $100,000.

In summation to allegedly stealing dogs from neighbors, Hammonds reportedly adopted immoderate of the animals done societal media.