{"id":476704,"date":"2026-10-26T01:24:06","date_gmt":"2026-10-26T01:24:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/476704\/"},"modified":"2026-10-26T01:24:06","modified_gmt":"2026-10-26T01:24:06","slug":"caught-on-video-former-pro-soccer-player-reportedly-dangled-dog-from-window","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/476704\/","title":{"rendered":"Caught on video: Former pro soccer player reportedly dangled dog from window"},"content":{"rendered":"

SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (WKRC) \u2014 A former pro soccer player was arrested in El Salvador after he was reportedly caught on video<\/a> dangling a small dog by its legs from an apartment window last week.<\/p>\n

The incident happened on Oct. 20 in El Salvador’s capital, San Salvador. The video allegedly showing 64-year-old H\u00e9ctor Alejandro Rosales Bonilla hanging a pug from the window of what appears to be a fifth-story apartment while it cries in distress has since gone viral. In the video, the man is also seen taking what appears to be a photo or video of the pug as it dangles for at least four seconds. <\/p>\n

Rosales Bonilla is a former professional soccer player who played for C.D. \u00c1guila, a club in El Salvador’s Primera Divisi\u00f3n, in the ’90s, and is now a dentist, according to the New York Post<\/a>. He is facing animal abuse charges for the incident, according to the National Civil Police of El Salvador (PNC).<\/p>\n

“We will not tolerate this type of action,” the PNC wrote in a translated post on X<\/a> following Rosales Bonilla’s arrest. <\/p>\n

“We received a report through social media about a little dog that was being a victim of animal abuse,” San Salvador Mayor Mario Dur\u00e1n said in a separate X post.<\/a> “Immediately, our team, along with @PNCSV, intervened and managed to rescue it. Now it is safe and will receive the care it needs.”<\/p>\n

Dur\u00e1n’s office also shared video of the pug playing with an official following the former soccer player’s arrest. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (WKRC) \u2014 A former pro soccer player was arrested in El Salvador after he…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":476705,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[82,84,83],"class_list":["post-476704","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\/476704","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=476704"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476704\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/476705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=476704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=476704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=476704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}