Three dogs were found dead inside a van at a North Side storage facility, and a San Antonio police officer arrested two women on intoxication-related charges.<\/p>\n
Brittany Samantha\u00a0Urquidez, 31, and Kristine Leaigh Urquidez, 35, each face three counts of cruelty to non-livestock animals. A judge set Brittany Urquidez\u2019s bail at $45,000 and Kristine Urquidez\u2019s at $30,000.<\/p>\n
Kristine\u00a0Urquidez also faces a charge of driving while intoxicated, while Brittany Urquidez was charged with public intoxication.<\/p>\n
On Oct. 21, a caller told police that two women had been asleep in a pickup truck for about two hours at the Life Storage facility at 7340\u00a0Blanco Road, according to a San Antonio Police Department report.<\/p>\n
An officer found the women in the truck, which was parked beside a van with its windows covered by blankets. Both women woke up to speak with the officer.<\/p>\n
The officer asked why the van\u2019s windows were covered. The women said their dogs were inside and that they had been turning the van on and off throughout the day.<\/p>\n
Kristine\u00a0Urquidez failed a field sobriety test, while Brittany Urquidez fell back asleep. Both women were arrested on intoxication-related charges. The officer asked whether they had family members who could pick up the dogs.<\/p>\n
The officer then approached the van, which was not running. He found an opening in the blankets and knocked on a window, but the dogs did not move.<\/p>\n
When the officer opened the door, he smelled a strong, foul odor. He saw three dogs inside the van and wrote in his report that they were clearly dead.<\/p>\n
The officer wrote that he believed the dogs\u2019 deaths were directly related to the women negligently leaving them in the van without air conditioning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Three dogs were found dead inside a van at a North Side storage facility, and a San Antonio…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":474879,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[82,84,83],"class_list":["post-474878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio-headlines","tag-san-antonio-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474878","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=474878"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474878\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/474879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=474878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=474878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=474878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}