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Tyler Holtz is accused of threatening a family member days after being arrested on animal cruelty charges. Courtesy: Putnam County Sheriff’s Office <\/p>\n
HAWTHORNE, Fla. – Less than a week after a Florida<\/a> man was accused of throwing five newborn kittens in the trash, he ended up back in jail after deputies said he threatened to kill a family member.<\/p>\n The backstory:<\/p>\n On April 25, 2026, deputies with the Putnam County Sheriff\u2019s Office went to a Hawthorne home after a witness told them she had removed two plastic bags containing five kittens from a trash can after hearing the animals whining inside.<\/p>\n The deputy said that the kittens still had umbilical cords attached and were not thriving.<\/p>\n Putnam County Animal Control went to the home and determined that the kittens were about five hours old. The mother cat was not located.<\/p>\n According to PCSO, the person who found the kittens tried to get them emergency medical help, but four died. The fifth kitten was being treated at a veterinary office in Ocala.<\/p>\n A neighbor who lived on the property said that he caught Tyler Holtz, 36, placing the bags in the garbage can.<\/p>\n Holtz was arrested on May 1 and charged with five counts of animal cruelty and abandoning an animal to die.<\/p>\n He was released on a $12,500 bond, on the condition that he wouldn’t commit another crime.<\/p>\n Dig deeper:<\/p>\n Approximately three days later, deputies said Holtz sent text messages to a family member stating that the victim was “a dead man walking” as well as giving details of firearms and access to weapons.<\/p>\n The victim reportedly told deputies he was scared for his life and that Holtz was known to have a firearm.<\/p>\n Deputies located Holtz during a traffic stop. He was charged with sending a written threat to kill. He is being held at the Putnam County Jail on no bond.<\/p>\n The Source: This article was written with information posted on social media by the Putnam County Sheriff\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n Florida<\/a>Crime and Public Safety<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article Tyler Holtz is accused of threatening a family member days after being arrested on animal cruelty charges.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":262519,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[630,47,28,30,29,115,628],"class_list":["post-262518","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-news","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262518","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=262518"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262518\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/262519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=262518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=262518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=262518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}