A 58-year-old Buena Park man who pleaded guilty in October to attacking a co-worker was charged Wednesday with drawing and quartering a pregnant dog in an Anaheim alley.
Eric Lyn Holliday was charged with a count of cruelty to animals, possession of a hard drug with two or more prior convictions, both felonies, and a misdemeanor count of possessing a controlled substance. He also faces a sentencing enhancement for the personal use of a deadly weapon.
At about 7:35 a.m. Monday, surveillance video captured the crime in an alley in the 600 block of South Brookhurst Street, according to the Orange County District Attorney’s Office.
Holliday is accused of tying one end of a rope around a parking pole and the other end to the two hitch of his Ford Expedition, prosecutors said. Then he allegedly fastened the center of the rope around the dog’s neck, got back into the SUV and hit the gas to snap the Maltese’s neck, prosecutors said.
Holliday allegedly got out of the vehicle, took a look at the dog’s body and drove away, prosecutors said. Investigators believe it was a 6-year-old Maltese.
The carcass of the dog was found a few hours later by a business manager, who called police. When Holliday was arrested he allegedly had several baggies of methamphetamine on him, prosecutors said.
Holliday pleaded guilty on Oct. 15 to vandalism and assault with force likely to produce great bodily injury and was sentenced to 126 days in jail, or time served, according to court records. He was placed on two years of formal probation and ordered to enroll in a substance abuse program.