{"id":74571,"date":"2025-12-07T16:48:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-07T16:48:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/74571\/"},"modified":"2025-12-07T16:48:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-07T16:48:07","slug":"st-pete-man-tortures-kills-2-pet-birds-affidavit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/74571\/","title":{"rendered":"St. Pete man tortures, kills 2 pet birds: affidavit"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p data-v-3646484b=\"\">ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. &#8211; A St. Pete man is facing animal cruelty charges after he tortured and killed two of his pet birds, according to the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox13news.com\/tag\/us\/fl\/pinellas\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pinellas County<\/a> Sheriff\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WTVT\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-3646484b=\"\">The backstory:<\/p>\n<p data-v-3646484b=\"\">Bradley Walters, 39, was taken into custody on Saturday after deputies found two dead birds in his garbage can. One of the birds had its head dismembered.<\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/walters.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-v-0dea8073=\"\"\/> <\/p>\n<p data-v-0dea8073=\"\">Courtesy: Pinellas County Jail. <\/p>\n<p data-v-3646484b=\"\">An arrest affidavit says that Walters squeezed and shook the birds until they died.<\/p>\n<p data-v-3646484b=\"\">READ:\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-3646484b=\"\">His bond was set at $5,000.<\/p>\n<p data-v-3646484b=\"\">CLICK HERE:&gt;&gt;&gt; <a class=\"c-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@fox13tampa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Follow FOX 13 on YouTube<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: Information for this story was provided by a Pinellas County arrest affidavit.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox13news.com\/tag\/us\/fl\/pinellas\/st-petersburg\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-3646484b=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">St. Petersburg<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox13news.com\/tag\/crime-publicsafety\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-3646484b=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Crime and Public Safety<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. &#8211; A St. Pete man is facing animal cruelty charges after he tortured and killed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":74572,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[630,47,115,1157,202,204,203,199,201,200,628],"class_list":["post-74571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-crime-publicsafety","tag-fl","tag-news","tag-pinellas","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-news","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74571","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=74571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74571\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}