Saratoga County resident Anthony Gargano, age 49, of Gansevoort, pleaded responsible to a misdemeanor cost of violating the New York State Agriculture and Markets Law in Milton Town Court on Tuesday, March 5.
Sheriff’s officers mentioned Gargano – who owns Spring Street Deli & Pizzeria in Saratoga Springs – left the cat outdoors of the Saratoga County Animal Shelter after hours on the night time of Thursday, Jan. 4. Temperatures on the time hovered round 20 levels.
Surveillance video confirmed him leaving the animal with out shelter and driving away, prosecutors mentioned. The cat, named Kane, hasn’t been seen since.
Gargano was fed up with the “sweet” ginger cat displaying as much as his Spring Street eatery, the place it was “loved by many” and sometimes fed by staff, in accordance with a GoFundMe created to assist discover the animal.
Kane’s proprietor, Jaime DiGiovanni, informed the Schenectady Daily Gazette she and Gargano spoke the day earlier than the incident, and he threatened to contact animal management if she didn’t cease the cat from getting into his business. She then informed the restaurant’s staff to cease feeding Kane.
The Saratoga County Animal Shelter in Ballston Spa known as her on Jan. 10 and knowledgeable her that Kane had been dropped off on the facility on Jan. 4 and that somebody had confessed to doing so, the Daily Gazette studies.
“What bothers me is he knew it was my cat, he knows I live three houses down and you chose to take him when the shelter was closed and drop him off, and we still haven’t found Kane,” DiGiovanni informed the outlet.
Her household is devastated by the lack of their beloved pet, which was adopted by her teenage son’s late father.
Saratoga County District Attorney Karen Heggen known as Gargano’s actions “inexcusable.”
“It is ironic that Defendant Gargano left Kane the cat without shelter outside the County’s Animal Shelter where animals are cared for, but did so after hours when no one was present to receive the cat on a cold winter night,” she mentioned.
In courtroom Tuesday, Gargano was sentenced to a conditional discharge that bars him from proudly owning or harboring any animal for 50 years.
He was additionally ordered to pay a $500 tremendous and supply a DNA pattern to the state’s DNA database.
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