Boyfriend faces prison for killing girlfriend's cat
This just arrived from the District Attorney's Office:
LOS ANGELES -- A man faces a possible state prison term after pleading no contest to killing his girlfriend's cat following an argument, the District Attorney's Office announced today.
On May 2, Scott Allen Atkinson, 45, was convicted of one count of making criminal threats and one count of intentional cruelty to an animal. Two other counts were dismissed as part of a plea agreement. Atkinson is due back for sentencing July 31 at Los Angeles Superior Court, Department 127.
The defendant killed "Tweety," a black-and-white cat, in October 2007 after he and his girlfriend argued outside their (Los Angeles) apartment, according to police reports. After the verbal exchange, the defendant allegedly went back inside the apartment and came back out sometime later, telling the girlfriend, "Follow the blood trail to find Tweety."
While Atkinson contended that he found the cat dead and put its body in a dumpster behind the apartment building, police found blood on the walls of the apartment and in the bathtub. The cat's body was never recovered.
Deputy District Attorney Stefana Antonescu said Atkinson faces two years in state prison.
Man faces two years in prison for killing his girlfriend's cat
LOS ANGELES -- A man faces a possible state prison term after pleading no contest to killing his girlfriend's cat following an argument, the District Attorney's Office announced today.
On May 2, Scott Allen Atkinson, 45, was convicted of one count of making criminal threats and one count of intentional cruelty to an animal. Two other counts were dismissed as part of a plea agreement. Atkinson is due back for sentencing July 31 at Los Angeles Superior Court, Department 127.
The defendant killed "Tweety," a black-and-white cat, in October 2007 after he and his girlfriend argued outside their (Los Angeles) apartment, according to police reports. After the verbal exchange, the defendant allegedly went back inside the apartment and came back out sometime later, telling the girlfriend, "Follow the blood trail to find Tweety."
While Atkinson contended that he found the cat dead and put its body in a dumpster behind the apartment building, police found blood on the walls of the apartment and in the bathtub. The cat's body was never recovered.
Deputy District Attorney Stefana Antonescu said Atkinson faces two years in state prison.
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