Scranton police found a dog and six puppies abandoned in a Division Street residence, according to a criminal complaint.<\/p>\n
The animals were found Feb. 21 in a single crate, covered in feces and urine and without food or water, police said.<\/p>\n
The adult dog, a female, was severely underweight, with her ribs, hips and spine showing. The dog and her puppies were transported to Griffin Pond Animal Shelter for evaluation and treatment.<\/p>\n
James, 39, and Carrie Flores, 33, of 1517 Division St., face seven counts of cruelty to animals and seven counts of animal neglect.<\/p>\n
According to the complaint, investigators learned additional animals, including cats and a black Labrador, had been inside the home at one point.<\/p>\n
They found one of the cats outside and a neighbor agreed to care for it.<\/p>\n
During their investigation, officers learned the landlord had sent staff into the residence for cleaning, where they found the abandoned animals.<\/p>\n
Investigators then spoke with property manager Frank Hoover who witnessed the abandoned animals inside the apartment.<\/p>\n
Officers determined the James and Carrie Flores had been gone for over a week, leaving the animals without adequate care, food or water.\u00a0 A neighbor informed them the couple had traveled to Texas.<\/p>\n
The couple have preliminary hearings scheduled for 9:15 a.m. on May 4 before District Judge Sean Gallagher.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Scranton police found a dog and six puppies abandoned in a Division Street residence, according to a criminal…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11926,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[202,201,182,139,28,178,180,179],"class_list":["post-159705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-lackawanna-county","tag-local-news","tag-news","tag-pennsylvania","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159705","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=159705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159705\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}