Southington police mentioned she dumped an grownup cat and a kitten in a busy car parking zone, then ran over the kitten and left the cat badly injured.
| Updated
SOUTHINGTON, CT — A New Britain girl has been charged with abandoning two cats — together with a kitten — in an area car parking zone after which working the kitten over along with her car.
According to the Southington Police Department, Ana Rodriguez, 65, of 101 Governor St., New Britain, was charged Friday with two counts of cruelty to animals.
Subscribe
She was launched on a $2,500 bond after turning herself into the SPD. Rodriguez will seem in New Britain Superior Court on May 20.
In a disturbing account of what occurred, Southington police mentioned the incident occurred on April 15 on the Southington Walmart car parking zone, 235 Queen St.
According to a report launched by police Friday afternoon, Southington officers had been referred to as to Walmart to are inclined to an animal criticism.
At the time, it was reported a black Nissan Rogue dropped off a cat and an injured kitten within the car parking zone.
Southington Animal Control positioned each felines and found the kitten was deceased, with a witness telling the animal management officer a car ran over the kitten.
Citing witness testimony, police mentioned the suspect opened the rear of her SUV, eliminated two cats, and placed each of the cats into the car parking zone.
That witness, police mentioned, noticed the lady — later recognized as Rodriguez — pull out of the parking house, placing one of many cats, earlier than leaving.
Police mentioned the grownup feminine cat had a compound fracture to its proper hind leg, with “bone protruding by way of the pores and skin.” The damage required amputation of the leg, police mentioned.
Meanwhile, an post-mortem concluded the kitten was killed by being run over by the car, police mentioned.
According to police, a video surveillance assessment captured the main points of the incident.
Police mentioned the video confirmed Rodriguez reaching down and showing to choose up the kitten a brief distance away from the car and throwing it after the kitten adopted the lady again to her SUV.
Video, based on police, then confirmed the suspect making “a number of gradual makes an attempt” to drive away, stopping to test on the kitten’s location, earlier than shifting ahead once more and working the kitten over.
Police had been in a position to monitor the car to New Britain and Rodriguez’s home handle, with the SPD citing “the persistence of police.”
The SPD mentioned Rodriguez, at first, denied dumping the cats, however later admitted to leaving the felines within the car parking zone with no meals, water, or shelter.
Police mentioned she denied working over the kitten.
According to police, veterinarians could not decide how the bigger cat was injured, however they did conclude it was a “recent traumatic damage, probably because of being run over by a automotive.”
Police mentioned Rodriguez “deliberately launched each cats in a busy retail car parking zone throughout business hours with no meals, water, shelter, or regard for his or her well being and security.”
This, the SPD acknowledged, resulted within the demise of a kitten and the intense damage to the cat.
An arrest warrant was sought and obtained and Rodriguez turned herself in to authorities Thursday.
