OKEECHOBEE COUNTY, Fla. — Three males remain in custody after a video revealed them putting sulfuric acid on a caged cat while taping the act previously this year, according to the Okeechobee County Sheriff’s Office.
Two investigators with the firm served among the suspects, Jaymarion Lawton, 19, with a search warrant for his mobile phone on April 5.
While taking a look at the phone, investigators found an eight-minute video that revealed a specific putting Liquid Fire, which is sulfuric acid utilized to unblock drains pipes, onto a cat that was inside an animal trap.
Investigators said the event took place on Feb. 14 in the 300 block of Northeast 17th Avenue in Okeechobee County.
The constable’s workplace said the video triggered a 2nd examination into the event.
They said their examination revealed that Lawton taped the video on his phone while Andrew Jackson III, 21, was determined as a 2nd individual taping the event.
Okeechobee County Sheriff’s Office
Wanya Sands, 22, was determined as the individual who was seen on the video putting the Liquid Fire onto the cat’s body and head several times throughout the eight-minute video.
Detectives said they situated Sands on Tuesday and interviewed him. During the interview, the constable’s workplace said he started to run away on foot from the investigators, took on and apprehended.
Sands is implicated of intensified animal cruelty and withstanding arrest without violence.
Jackson later on turned himself in to the Okeechobee County Sheriff’s Office without event. He is implicated of being a device after the truth to a level 5 third-degree felony of intensified animal cruelty.
Lawton, who remained in custody from recently’s search warrant and those charges, likewise deals with a charge of device after the truth to a level 5 third-degree felony of intensified animal cruelty.
The cat’s location are unidentified. The constable’s workplace said it was reported that it was blurt of the cage and escaped.
Animal control officers in Okeechobee County were likewise gotten in touch with, and there were no reports of cats being kipped down for haven. They likewise have actually not gotten any cats given that the event that revealed any indications of chemical burns, which would have been the outcome of the Liquid Fire being put onto the cat.
