In May, police raided the home where Monte would later be killed, uncovering pills and drug paraphernalia and arresting 53-year-old Anthony Iovine, according to the Staten Island Advance<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n Despite his past, Monte’s loved ones – including a friend who attended rehab with him – said that he had been committed to sobriety for the past eight months.\u00a0<\/p>\n ‘He was getting his life together,’ Monte’s partner of 25 years, who wished to remain anonymous, told the Daily News. ‘What happened to him with this dog is a tragedy.’<\/p>\n The attack unfolded just after 4pm when Monte visited a friend’s house to pass the hour in between trips to a pharmacy. Several people inside saw the attack and called 911.\u00a0<\/p>\n Frank Monte, 59, was killed by his friend’s dog Bean outside a home on Staten Island on Sunday\u00a0<\/p>\n Monte\u00a0died at the scene (pictured) while the black pit bull Bean was euthanized<\/p>\n Authorities subdued the pit bull with a tranquilizer while waiting for crews from the Animal Care Centers of NYC to arrive.<\/p>\n A law enforcement source told Silive.com<\/a> that Monte was playing with the dog when it unexpectedly ‘turned on him.’\u00a0<\/p>\n The dog’s owner lived in the basement of the home, and neighbors said Monte had often appeared afraid of Bean – especially knowing that the dog had bitten other people before.\u00a0<\/p>\n ‘You could tell Frank was nervous around the dog,’ an unnamed neighbor told the Daily News. ‘Everybody’s devastated.’<\/p>\n Speaking on the condition of anonymity, another neighbor told Silive.com that the ‘big dog’ had been left outside in unsafe conditions before and had escaped multiple times in the past.\u00a0<\/p>\n ‘The dog did go after some girl one time with a small dog,’ the neighbor claimed. ‘It’s not safe, we’re all afraid to walk by.’\u00a0<\/p>\n Monte\u2019s longtime partner told the Daily News that it remained a mystery why he would ever approach the dog in the first place.\u00a0<\/p>\n ‘He would not go up to that dog. I am in total shock,’ she said.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n Despite his past, Monte’s loved ones said that he had been committed to sobriety for the past eight months\u00a0<\/p>\n ‘I don’t know if someone provoked the dog,’ she added. ‘I don’t go near that house. I know of that house that it is a troubled house.’<\/p>\n Other local residents shared similar warnings and admitted that they were unsurprised that such an attack happened on the property.<\/p>\n ‘We knew it’s gonna happen. Everyday something happened in that house,’ a nearby business owner told Silive.com.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n Police are still investigating the attack, though no arrests have been made so far.\u00a0<\/p>\n ‘Frank was a good man. He loved my daughter, took great care of her,’ Monte’s partner, who has a 34-year-old disabled daughter, told the Daily News.<\/p>\n ‘He has traveled with me around the world, taking care of my daughter,’ she added. ‘I would trust nobody with my daughter, except Frank Monte.’\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n Those close to Monte explained that, despite his checkered past, he was becoming a ‘good guy,’ regularly visiting his 96-year-old mother with dementia who was living in a nursing home.<\/p>\n In 2013, Monte was arrested in Oakwood Beach after prosecutors said he handed 300 small plastic bags of heroin to a buyer on Pelican Circle and Old Mill Road, according to court papers obtained by Silive.com<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n In exchange, he received $1,320 and was arrested and charged with both felony and misdemeanor counts of criminal possession of a controlled substance, as well as a felony charge for criminal drug sales.\u00a0<\/p>\n Although Monte acknowledged felony drug possession, he insisted he had no role in the sale, arguing that his prior drug offenses had led to a ‘biased’ view from law enforcement, according to the New York Times<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n Speaking to the newspaper in 2014, Monte said: ‘When you go to jail on Staten Island, you’re labeled for life with these cops.’\u00a0<\/p>\n![\"Frank](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/105675917-15480985-Frank_Monte_59_of_Staten_Island_with_nearly_40_arrests_under_his-m-72_17689363841.jpeg\")
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