A Tunkhannock woman is facing animal cruelty charges after police say she left two dogs in her car for more than eight hours in temperatures above 70 degrees, according to a criminal complaint.<\/p>\n
Jessica Jayne, 34, of 10 Overlook Drive, allegedly arrived at the Regional Hospital parking lot in Scranton at 8 a.m. on March 31.<\/p>\n
At about 1 p.m., hospital security officer William Summereve summoned police, concerned for the dogs\u2019 welfare.<\/p>\n
Officers responded to the parking lot, noting two dogs \u2014 a medium-sized white dog and a smaller brown dog \u2014 didn\u2019t seem to be in distress.<\/p>\n
Police noted, however, that the larger dog seemed aggressive and would growl when anyone approached the car and occasionally nipped at the smaller dog.<\/p>\n
According to the criminal complaint, the dogs didn\u2019t have access to food or water. The outside temperature, they said, was 76 degrees.<\/p>\n
Security then requested the driver come back to the car over the hospital\u2019s public address system, but no one responded.<\/p>\n
Police asked security officers to keep them apprised of the situation because the dogs didn\u2019t seem to be in distress at that time.<\/p>\n
At about 4:45 p.m., Summereve contacted police for a second time. He said the windows had fogged up and the dogs seemed to be markedly less active.<\/p>\n
Responding officers noted that the smaller dog was bleeding, apparently from having been bitten by the larger dog.<\/p>\n
As officers were speaking with a representative of the Lackawanna County district attorney\u2019s office, Jayne returned to the car, opened the windows and put the air conditioning on.<\/p>\n
She told officers she had returned to the car several times since 8 a.m. to tend to the dogs.\u00a0When asked if she could provide proof she had returned, she did not respond.<\/p>\n
She is charged with two counts of cruelty to animals.\u00a0A preliminary hearing is scheduled for 9:15 a.m. on May 13 before District Judge Alyce Farrell.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Tunkhannock woman is facing animal cruelty charges after police say she left two dogs in her car…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":164136,"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-164265","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\/164265","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=164265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164265\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/164136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}