{"id":75129,"date":"2025-12-08T03:41:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-08T03:41:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/75129\/"},"modified":"2025-12-08T03:41:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T03:41:10","slug":"st-pete-man-tortures-kills-2-pet-birds-affidavit-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/75129\/","title":{"rendered":"St. Pete man tortures, kills 2 pet birds: affidavit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Brief<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A St. Pete man tortured and killed his two pet birds, according to a Pinellas County arrest affidavit.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">39-year-old Bradley Walters was taken into custody after deputies found the birds dead in his garbage can.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">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\" data-ylk=\"slk:Pinellas County;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Pinellas County<\/a> Sheriff\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The backstory<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">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 alt=\"&lt;div&gt;Courtesy: Pinellas County Jail.&lt;\/div&gt;\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"540\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/50b3908d89f258c569ee9113219fc4fd.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Courtesy: Pinellas County Jail.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">An arrest affidavit says that Walters squeezed and shook the birds until they died.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">READ:<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">His bond was set at $5,000.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">CLICK HERE:&gt;&gt;&gt;<a class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@fox13tampa\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Follow FOX 13 on YouTube;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\">Follow FOX 13 on YouTube<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Source<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Information for this story was provided by a Pinellas County arrest affidavit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Brief A St. Pete man tortured and killed his two pet birds, according to a Pinellas County&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":75130,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[14772,42589,8656,42590,596,202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":{"0":"post-75129","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-st-petersburg","8":"tag-affidavit","9":"tag-bradley-walters","10":"tag-dead-birds","11":"tag-pet-birds","12":"tag-pinellas-county","13":"tag-st-pete","14":"tag-st-pete-headlines","15":"tag-st-pete-news","16":"tag-st-petersburg","17":"tag-st-petersburg-headlines","18":"tag-st-petersburg-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75129","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=75129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75129\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}