A young couple is providing a $10,000 benefit for the safe return of their beloved family dog who was nabbed from the front lawn of their home in Melbourne over the weekend.
Two-year-old Labrador-French mastiff cross, Leo, remained in the lawn of his Park Street home in Brunswick at approximately 4.15pm on July 30, when an unidentified man approached the property.
“It’s so terrible,” his tearful owner Courtney Beaumont said.
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“It’s simply sickening, It’s so dismal to believe we remain in a neighborhood, society where this sort of thing takes place.”
Senior Constable Jessie Coletti said a man left a silver Toyota Kluger, unlatched eviction, strolled the dog out into the car and repelled.
“There was absolutely a possibility he was scoping out the property,” she said.
“It is traumatic for somebody to lose their dog.”
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No trace of Leo has actually been discovered given that.
Police state the vehicle the wrongdoer utilized has actually been determined as having actually taken number plates with registration TCD849.
Detectives observed the vehicle on CCTV parked outside the property from around 3.30pm till the theft.
Anyone with info on Leo’s place must call authorities or Crime Stoppers right away.
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