Deputies in El Paso County arrested a pair of dog owners after investigators said two dogs were left inside a parked vehicle for about an hour without adequate ventilation or protection from the heat, leading to the death of one of the animals.<\/p>\n
On May 9, at about 3 p.m., deputies with the El Paso County Sheriff\u2019s Office responded to the 6900 block of Hueco Tanks Road after a report of canines being left unattended inside a parked vehicle. The caller reported the vehicle was not running and that one of the animals appeared to be in distress.<\/p>\n
Deputies made contact with the owners, identified as 59-year-old Manuel Frias and 55-year-old Griselda Gallegos, who had returned to the vehicle before deputies arrived. During the investigation, deputies learned the pair attempted CPR on a 2-year-old French bulldog, which was pronounced dead at the scene. A second dog, a 5-year-old Lhasa Apso, survived.<\/p>\n
Frias and Gallegos were each charged with one count of Cruelty to Non-Livestock Animals \u2013 Failure to Provide and one count of Cruelty to Non-Livestock Animals \u2013 Kill\/Poison\/Serious Bodily Injury. Both were booked into the El Paso County Detention Facility on $10,000 bonds each.<\/p>\n
Sheriff Oscar Ugarte emphasized the serious nature of animal cruelty cases.<\/p>\n
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\u201cAnimal cruelty cases are something we take very seriously,\u201d Sheriff Ugarte said. \u201cPets depend on us for their safety and well-being, and no animal should suffer due to negligence. We want to remind the public that temperatures inside a vehicle can become deadly within minutes, even when the weather outside may not seem extreme.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Deputies in El Paso County arrested a pair of dog owners after investigators said two dogs were left…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":312662,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":["post-312661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield-headlines","tag-bakersfield-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=312661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312661\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/312662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}