BENSALEM TOWNSHIP, PA \u2014 A township man faces animal cruelty charges after allegedly leaving his dog in a hot car where it died while he gambled at Parx Casino, police said.<\/p>\n
In a criminal complaint obtained by Patch, Bensalem Police said that 62-year-old Andrew DeShield left his pit bull mix, named Gucci, inside his car while gambling at Parx Casino on Sunday.<\/p>\n
Police Officers rescued the dog from the car and rushed it to a nearby animal hospital.<\/p>\n
Despite Gucci’s body temperature being 108 degrees, police say Deshield refused treatment and took Gucci home, the criminal complaint states.<\/p>\n
Police came to DeShield’s house the next day and found Gucci dead in the back of his car.<\/p>\n
Gucci was also dehydrated, his gums were discolored, and he showed signs of neurological issues as a result of his high body temperature, the criminal complaint stated. <\/p>\n
Deshield was arrested and arraigned on June 30 before District Judge Joseph Falcone on three felony charges of aggravated cruelty to animals and related misdemeanors. <\/p>\n
He was sent to Bucks County Correctional Center in lieu of $200,000 bail.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BENSALEM TOWNSHIP, PA \u2014 A township man faces animal cruelty charges after allegedly leaving his dog in a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14211,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[191,193,192,194],"class_list":["post-14210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bensalem","tag-bensalem","tag-bensalem-headlines","tag-bensalem-news","tag-bensalem-township"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14210\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}