Officials say police seized 37 dogs from the Aranwood Kennel in Mahwah on Tuesday.
The proprietor was arrested after a buyer discovered a canine nonetheless alive in a rubbish bag in a dumpster on the property. When kennel proprietor Richard Dubarton was requested in regards to the canine, he said that somebody should have dumped the canine.
However, police later discovered that Dubarton had picked up the canine months earlier from Irvington, the place he additionally labored as an animal management officer.
Dubarton is now charged with a number of animal cruelty offenses.
News 12 was given photographs of a number of the dogs being stored on the kennel, which confirmed one animal with open wounds. Others very skinny.
Dubarton has a court docket look on March 8 in Bergen County Superior Court.