A patrol of the Local Police in Ingenio (Gran Canaria) stopped the past day 31 of December to a neighbor about 45 years ago accused of killing kicking your dog for having done their needs in the housing, according to the newspaper The Province of Las Palmas. The arrested, natural of the municipality of Telde, but resides with his family in Wit, spent the new year’s Eve in the dungeon after the arrest. If you prove the facts, could be constitutive of a crime of animal abuse, punishable under article 337 of the Criminal Code, which entails a penalty of six to 18 months in prison.

The local agents came on the 18.20 hours last Tuesday at the building where he lives the detainee, situated in Ingenio, a town in canary islands some 30,000 inhabitants. According to testimony collected by the newspaper from the canary islands, were the neighbors who alerted the Municipal Police. “This family was left alone many times at the puppy and we heard crying. However, this time they were tears different, of suffering. For those alert to the Police,” indicated several residents who preferred not to give his name.

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according to the account of The Province, two police officers met with the suspect at the door of the house, who works in the restaurant of a hotel in the south of Gran Canaria, and that is not allowed to pass to the agents. “They said the dog was resting and that they did not make case to the complaints of others. The dog is small, I don’t know if it was the breed Yorkshire terrier”, pointed to the same sources. The waiter later admitted that he had given him a small “reprimand” to the pet for doing something wrong. The police insisted on the need to go and see the dog. The agents managed to enter the residence and found the dog dead. They also found droppings and urine of the dog in different places of the house. Shortly after, came the women and children of the suspect, and began to cry the four for what had occurred.

The two agents proceeded to the arrest of the alleged perpetrator of a crime of animal abuse, as stated in article 337 of the Criminal Code. This standard sets out that those who unreasonably abuse a domestic animal in a way that would cause injury which would seriously impair his health will receive sentences of between three months to one year of imprisonment, and disqualification from one to three years to exercise any profession related to animals. If the abuse leads to death, the penalties rise from six to 18 months in prison, as well as disqualification from two to four years. The detainee, who had no police record, went to court last Wednesday.