{"id":410790,"date":"2026-07-24T14:07:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T14:07:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/410790\/"},"modified":"2026-07-24T14:07:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T14:07:09","slug":"sonora-man-arrested-after-allegedly-killing-dog-in-his-care-dumping-body-in-dumpster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/410790\/","title":{"rendered":"Sonora man arrested after allegedly killing dog in his care, dumping body in dumpster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Sonora man was arrested on suspicion of felony animal cruelty this week after a dog was found dead in a dumpster with signs it had been hurt, police said.<\/p>\n<p>Sonora police said officers were called to Pesce Way just before 7 p.m. on July 20 after someone reported finding the animal. Police recovered the dog and began investigating how it died.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators learned the dog had been left in the care of 33-year-old Lukas William Clark, who was staying at the owner&#8217;s home while the owner was away receiving extended medical care.<\/p>\n<p>Witness statements and other evidence indicated the dog was killed during the early morning hours of July 19, police said. It appears the dog&#8217;s body was allegedly placed in the dumpster around 3 a.m. that day.<\/p>\n<p>Police later arrested Clark without incident on West Jackson Street and booked him into the Tuolumne County Jail on suspicion of felony animal cruelty causing death.<\/p>\n<p>The investigation remains ongoing. Anyone with information is asked to contact Sonora police at 209-532-8141.<\/p>\n<p>Sonora is in Tuolumne County in the Sierra Nevada foothills, roughly 70 miles east of Stockton.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Sonora man was arrested on suspicion of felony animal cruelty this week after a dog was found&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":410791,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[121,123,122,54914,27329],"class_list":["post-410790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sacramento","tag-sacramento","tag-sacramento-headlines","tag-sacramento-news","tag-sonora-news","tag-tuolumne-county"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410790","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=410790"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410790\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/410791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=410790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=410790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=410790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}