Bridgeport, Connecticut – Two men were arrested on Friday for leaving dogs outside in “life-threatening” cold. According to the Bridgeport Police Department, Benito Islesias, 72, and Rusty Rodriguez, 46, were taken into custody at around 11:45 p.m. Friday.
Officers responded to a residence on the 400 block of Union Avenue after receiving an anonymous call about dogs suffering outside in the frigid weather. In a release, the authorities recounted the life-threatening conditions:
Police found two of the dogs barking and tethered to separate dilapidated wooden shelters in the backyard. A third dog was located in the basement. There were frozen buckets of water and containers of spoiled food near the dogs. Police had to cut the restraints on the dogs to free them. Officers recorded the wind chill temperature outside to be minus-11 degrees Fahrenheit when they arrived.
The three dogs, whose ages range from five to 10 years, were taken by animal control. The authorities said, “The dogs are currently under the care of the Animal Control Division and are reported to be doing well.”
Islesias and Rodriguez were taken into custody, but they posted bond and were released; they are scheduled to appear in court for arraignment on January 30th.
The authorities added:
The Bridgeport Police responded to the same address on Union Avenue for Animal Cruelty calls in both 2018 and 2023. Benito Islesias was also charged with Animal Cruelty during the 2018 incident.
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What a useless system for punishment we have. Completely useless. Stunning that these stupid spics can keep getting animals over and over. Shouldn’t law makers be thoroughly embarrassed??? I would be if I sucked at my job that much.
Another example of why we need better and stricter laws for crimes against animals. At least one of these two degenerates had previously been charged with animal cruelty and here he is again owning more animals and committing the same crimes. This needs to change!
CALL ICE LET THEM PUT THEM WHERE THEY BELONG-NOT ON OUR STREETS!!!
Tie them up outside. Let them freeze to death. Bye…Bye.
These thugs deserve to be left in the cold to die so they know how it feels. Human scum.
No animal needs to be left out in the cold in this extremely cold weather. I hope they get the proper care needed and loving homes to live in.
LOCK THEM BOTH UP AND THROW AWAY THE KEY!!
Heartless morons. Three times now since 2018 and they’re still keeping dogs and making their precious lives HELL. Who allowed them to still have dogs after the first two cruelty cases? Morons all around. Meanwhile, dog BREEDERS continue on their merry way. 🤬
Take them out back and shoot them both.
Then go to courthouse and gather up the lawyers and hudges who allowed them to commit these crimes again and again and again.
The legal system is also guilty in the 1000’s of animal torture and deaths that happen every day in The Home Of The Free And The Land Of The Brave !!!!!
Yes, here in our allegedly Judeo Christian country.
Makes Me Sick
No. Shooting is too good. Tie em outside in shorts and have a bunch of people sitting in coats drinking hot coffee to make sure they can’t get loose. Should only take a day or so.
If these individuals have charged before, then they shouldn’t have been allowed to own any animals. Law enforcement didn’t do the job correctly the first time. These two things should be tethered in the freezing cold to die!
These animals need a 2nd chance at a decent life., not staked out and forgotten, without food or water, inhorrific conditions. Why was the 3rd in the basement? Condition of the 3rd dog? access to food and water? Why get a dog to stake it outside, through burning sun and freezing arctic cold. Fine them for medical care, food, medicine, training… and make them sign they Will Never have another animal of any kind,! if they sign, give then a suspended sentence after 300 hrs of community service each. Check on them frequently. NO animals.