A houseguest from hell strangled his host’s English Bulldog then gruesomely scattered the dismembered pooch’s stays in dumpsters throughout Westchester County, native prosecutors mentioned.
Benjamin Tyler, 39, was busted for the disturbing crime however shortly let out as a result of the aggravated cruelty to animal cost wasn’t bail eligible underneath state regulation, in accordance with the Westchetser district lawyer’s workplace.
Tyler, 39, of New Milford, Connecticut, was staying with a 41-year-old man inside a Huguenot Road condo in New Rochelle when he allegedly snatched up the purebred pooch named Bruno the morning of Dec. 6, in accordance with cops and prosecutors.
Tyler allegedly strangled Bruno after which dismembered him in “an especially depraved manner,” severing all 4 limbs, in accordance with a criticism filed in Metropolis Court docket of New Rochelle.
Bruno’s torso was discovered inside a 5-gallon orange bucket, stuffed right into a dumpster on Second Road in New Rochelle, prosecutors claimed.
His head and two legs had been individually discovered inside a brown Zara cardboard field, left in one other dumpster on Union Avenue, in accordance with the criticism.
A health care provider at Westchester Animal Hospital decided that Bruno was strangled to dying as a result of tiny spots seen in his eyes, indicating damaged blood vessels, the DA’s workplace mentioned.
Surveillance video from the condo constructing reveals Tyler leaving the condo holding each the orange bucket and the cardboard field, in accordance with prosecutors.
New Rochelle Police Detectives and ASPCA officers instantly launched an investigation, and obtained an arrest warrant for Tyler, cops mentioned.
Tyler turned himself in to police on Monday and was charged with the sickening crime, authorities mentioned.
He was arraigned that very same day in New Rochelle Metropolis Court docket earlier than Choose Jared Rice, who launched him on his personal recognizance.
One other alleged animal killer, Alberto Morris, 33, was granted supervised launch by a Brooklyn decide final month after he allegedly threw his pal’s beloved pit bull to its dying from a 14th-floor balcony.
Aggravated cruelty to animals, a felony, carries a two-year most jail sentence within the state of New York.
