{"id":290015,"date":"2026-05-30T11:25:28","date_gmt":"2026-05-30T11:25:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/290015\/"},"modified":"2026-05-30T11:25:28","modified_gmt":"2026-05-30T11:25:28","slug":"st-pete-man-charged-with-animal-abuse-police-deploy-taser-during-arrest-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/290015\/","title":{"rendered":"St. Pete man charged with animal abuse; police deploy Taser during arrest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A St. Petersburg man faces multiple charges, including two counts of animal cruelty, after witnesses reported him abusing two dogs, according to police affidavits.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Officers say Sean Etty, 37, was seen dragging the dogs on leashes before punching one several times, forcing a fist into its mouth and choking the other. The incidents involving each dog resulted in two separate felony counts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">When an officer ordered Etty to the ground, he refused, leading to an additional charge of resisting without violence. Police deployed a Taser before taking him into custody.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Etty told investigators the behavior was part of \u201cplaying rough\u201d with the dogs, according to the report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A St. Petersburg man faces multiple charges, including two counts of animal cruelty, after witnesses reported him abusing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":290016,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[353,73704,122637,202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":["post-290015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-animal-cruelty","tag-felony-counts","tag-sean-etty","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290015","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=290015"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290015\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/290016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=290015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=290015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=290015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}