{"id":364883,"date":"2026-07-08T03:48:27","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T03:48:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/364883\/"},"modified":"2026-07-08T03:48:27","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T03:48:27","slug":"man-accused-of-leaving-puppy-locked-in-trunk-in-channelview-field","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/364883\/","title":{"rendered":"Man accused of leaving puppy locked in trunk in Channelview field"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/untitled-june-05-2026-at-14.53.03-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"764\" height=\"432\" loading=\"eager\" fetchpriority=\"high\" data-v-653d32e2=\"\"\/> article <\/p>\n<p data-v-653d32e2=\"\">Photo: Harris County Pct. 1 Constable&#8217;s Office <\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">CHANNELVIEW, Texas &#8211; A man accused of dumping a puppy in a locked trunk in a Channelview field has been arrested, authorities say.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">According to the Harris County Pct. 1 Constable\u2019s Office, Deontwon Marquise Perry Jr., 21, is facing a misdemeanor charge of cruelty to animals.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">The incident happened in January, but Perry was arraigned last week.<\/p>\n<p>  Dog found in chest <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KRIV\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">The backstory:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Authorities say a passerby found the German Shepherd mix \u2013 believed to be about 11 months old \u2013 in the trunk. The dog named &#8220;Buster&#8221; could reportedly be heard whimpering in the container.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Buster was rescued and taken to the Houston SPCA for care and evaluation.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Precinct 1\u2019s Animal Cruelty Unit investigated the case with the Houston SPCA.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KRIV\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">What you can do:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Constable Alan Rosen asks anyone who spots sees animal cruelty to call the Houston SPCA at 713-869-7722.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: The information in this article comes from the Harris County Pct. 1 Constable&#8217;s Office.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox26houston.com\/tag\/crime-publicsafety\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Crime and Public Safety<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox26houston.com\/tag\/top-stories\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Top Stories<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox26houston.com\/tag\/us\/tx\/harris-county\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Harris County<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article Photo: Harris County Pct. 1 Constable&#8217;s Office CHANNELVIEW, Texas &#8211; A man accused of dumping a puppy&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":364884,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[1046,405,56,58,57,223,2053,216,393],"class_list":["post-364883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-crime-publicsafety","tag-harris-county","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news","tag-news","tag-top-stories","tag-tx","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=364883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364883\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/364884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=364883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=364883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=364883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}