Authorities reviewed surveillance video that showed a man getting out of a pickup truck, removing the dog from the truck bed, placing it in a box and throwing it into the dumpster, deputies said.<\/p>\n
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Victor Carrion-Flores, 79, was arrested on a charge of aggravated animal cruelty causing excessive pain or death, a third-degree felony. <\/p>\n
Investigators later identified the dog as a 10-year-old Jack Russell terrier mix named Max and located images of the animal on social media while following up on leads.<\/p>\n
On March 8, deputies interviewed the dog\u2019s owner, Victor Manuel Carrion-Flores, at the Osceola County Sheriff\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n
SIGN-UP FOR FOX 35’S BREAKING NEWS, DAILY NEWS NEWSLETTERS<\/a><\/p>\n Carrion-Flores told deputies the dog had a history of escaping from his home and that he found the animal injured on March 7 but did not know where it had been hurt. He said he was “too busy” to deal with the dog\u2019s injuries and believed the dog would eventually die from them, according to deputies.<\/p>\n What we don’t know:<\/p>\n The extent of the dog’s injuries was not released, but authorities noted a skull fracture. How it was injured is not conclusive.\u00a0<\/p>\n Although he denied injuring the dog, investigators said Carrion-Flores failed to seek medical care for the animal despite its obvious distress.<\/p>\n Victor Carrion-Flores, 79, was arrested on a charge of aggravated animal cruelty causing excessive pain or death, a third-degree felony. <\/p>\n He was arrested on a charge of aggravated animal cruelty causing excessive pain or death, a third-degree felony, and booked into the Osceola County Jail, authorities said.<\/p>\n The Source: This story was written based on information shared by the Osceola County Sheriff’s Office.\u00a0<\/p>\n Osceola County News<\/a>Kissimmee<\/a>Pets and Animals<\/a>Crime and Public Safety<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"KISSIMMEE, Fla. – A 79-year-old man was arrested on a felony animal cruelty charge after deputies said an…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":184683,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[630,47,28,30,29,1975,115,1976,8713,628],"class_list":["post-184682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-crime-publicsafety","tag-fl","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-kissimmee","tag-news","tag-osceola-county","tag-pets-animals","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184682","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184682"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184682\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/184683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/wofl-victor-carrion-flores.jpg\")
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