A canine from Massachusetts died within the care of a Connecticut canine coach, who misled the animal’s proprietor and officers investigating what occurred, police stated Tuesday.
Saying the coach was conducting a canine coaching rip-off, police in North Reading, Massachusetts, are searching for to cost the lady with felony counts of larceny and deceptive a police officer. Four different dogs had been returned to their homeowners, in Massachusetts, Connecticut and New Hampshire, through the investigation, police stated.
The proprietor of the canine that died reported the 3-year-old French bulldog lacking on Sept. 16, almost two weeks after investigators later discovered it had died, in line with police. The North Reading resident had despatched the canine to the coach in Haddam, Connecticut.
Investigators discovered that the canine died about Sept. 4 and was emaciated on the time, police stated. However, the coach, whom police did not identify, allegedly despatched the proprietor images of the canine purportedly being educated after Sept. 4.
When officers interviewed the coach, she made false or deceptive statements to hinder the investigation, police stated.
They had been searching for to summon the coach to a Middlesex County, Massachusets, district court docket clerk Justice of the Peace listening to the place she would face the larceny and obstruction costs.
Police stated they contacted the MSPCA over the case. They did not say if the 4 different dogs recovered through the investigation had been harm.
