{"id":915415,"date":"2026-11-13T01:40:09","date_gmt":"2026-11-13T01:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/915415\/"},"modified":"2026-11-13T01:40:09","modified_gmt":"2026-11-13T01:40:09","slug":"3-dogs-decomposing-inside-car-parked-downtown-go-unnoticed-for-days-affidavit-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/915415\/","title":{"rendered":"3 dogs decomposing inside car parked downtown go unnoticed for days, affidavit says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"sc-dLMFU sc-fHjqPf jbiTJv kYFPaL article-text\">SAN ANTONIO \u2013 Three dogs that were found dead and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ksat.com\/news\/local\/2026\/11\/12\/man-accused-of-leaving-2-dogs-to-die-in-hot-car-downtown-san-antonio-affidavit-says\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.ksat.com\/news\/local\/2026\/11\/12\/man-accused-of-leaving-2-dogs-to-die-in-hot-car-downtown-san-antonio-affidavit-says\/\">decomposing inside a car<\/a> in a busy downtown parking lot apparently went unnoticed for nearly a week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-dLMFU sc-fHjqPf jbiTJv kYFPaL article-text\">San Antonio police believe Robert Ramirez, 34, left the dogs to die back in July.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-dLMFU sc-fHjqPf jbiTJv kYFPaL article-text\">An arrest affidavit says the pugs belonged to a friend of Ramirez who had asked him to take care of the pets if he went to jail. The friend was appearing in court that day and suspected he might be arrested.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-dLMFU sc-fHjqPf jbiTJv kYFPaL article-text\">He left Ramirez and the dogs in his car in a parking lot on South Flores, across the street from the courthouse, the affidavit says.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-dLMFU sc-fHjqPf jbiTJv kYFPaL article-text\">The friend was, in fact, sent to jail.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-dLMFU sc-fHjqPf jbiTJv kYFPaL article-text\">The affidavit says six days later, an officer found the dogs dead and decomposing inside the hot car.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-dLMFU sc-fHjqPf jbiTJv kYFPaL article-text\">The document says there was no food or water there with them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-dLMFU sc-fHjqPf jbiTJv kYFPaL article-text\">\u201cI mean, there could\u2019ve been something done,\u201d said Mary Salazar, who parked her car in the same lot on Thursday. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-dLMFU sc-fHjqPf jbiTJv kYFPaL article-text\">She wonders how the dogs went unnoticed for so long, and why someone didn\u2019t rescue them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-dLMFU sc-fHjqPf jbiTJv kYFPaL article-text\">\u201cPeople come in and out of their cars,\u201d Salazar said. \u201cI mean, being next to a car that has dogs in it, somebody could have called the animal people or one of the cops in there.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-dLMFU sc-fHjqPf jbiTJv kYFPaL article-text\">Police tracked down the dog owner in jail and questioned him.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-dLMFU sc-fHjqPf jbiTJv kYFPaL article-text\">The affidavit says he told police that Ramirez had agreed to contact someone on his behalf to take care of the animals in exchange for beer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-dLMFU sc-fHjqPf jbiTJv kYFPaL article-text\">However, police say they found surveillance video showing Ramirez walking away from the car and leaving the dogs behind.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-dLMFU sc-fHjqPf jbiTJv kYFPaL article-text\">A warrant was issued for his arrest months ago.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-dLMFU sc-fHjqPf jbiTJv kYFPaL article-text\">Police tracked down Ramirez on Wednesday at a homeless encampment on the East side and arrested him.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-dLMFU sc-fHjqPf jbiTJv kYFPaL article-text\">He was booked into jail on animal cruelty charges.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-dLMFU sc-fHjqPf jbiTJv kYFPaL article-text\">Read also:<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 by KSAT &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN ANTONIO \u2013 Three dogs that were found dead and decomposing inside a car in a busy downtown&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":915416,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[29232,1147,4,450,3071,145424,25028,451,3,6999,452,453],"class_list":["post-915415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking-news","tag-animal-cruelty","tag-animals","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-crime","tag-crime-fighters","tag-downtown","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-san-antonio","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/915415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=915415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/915415\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/915416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=915415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=915415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=915415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}