{"id":69604,"date":"2025-12-03T13:59:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T13:59:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/69604\/"},"modified":"2025-12-03T13:59:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T13:59:09","slug":"a-tallahassee-man-who-shot-his-neighbors-dog-has-been-sentenced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/69604\/","title":{"rendered":"A Tallahassee man who shot his neighbor\u2019s dog has been sentenced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Tallahassee man who shot his neighbor\u2019s dog inside a vehicle has been sentenced to 90 days in jail and 10 years probation. John Pender claimed the dog bit his child but no injuries were found.<\/p>\n<p>It happened in April in the Glen neighborhood of Killearn Lakes. A home surveillance camera captured Pender opening the car door and firing with children just a few feet away.<\/p>\n<p>Pender pleaded no contest to a string of charges including aggravated animal cruelty, child abuse, and shooting into an occupied vehicle.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to jail time, he will do community service and must pay for therapy sessions for the children and vet bills for the dog.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Tallahassee man who shot his neighbor\u2019s dog inside a vehicle has been sentenced to 90 days in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":69605,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[232,234,233],"class_list":["post-69604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tallahassee","tag-tallahassee","tag-tallahassee-headlines","tag-tallahassee-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69604","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=69604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69604\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}