MIAMI – Miami police arrested a 31-year-old girl Tuesday after they stated she beat her Yorkshire terrier to demise on the balcony of her Liberty City residence after which threw its physique in a dumpster.
Authorities stated a involved neighbor on the residence building, positioned at 750 NW 69th St., captured the cruelty on video and reported it to police.
According to an arrest report, at round 9:30 p.m. on Nov. 29, a neighbor referred to as police after recording the video of Lindsay Valcin beating the small canine.
Police stated that video confirmed a “partially nude” Valcin punching the canine a number of occasions whereas saying, “You dumb b—-.”
In the video, the canine could possibly be heard “screeching” and “crying” throughout the attack, the report states.
According to police, Valcin “is then seen grabbing the dog by her tail and slamming her into the glass door on the balcony” and could possibly be heard asking the canine, “Why the f— would you do that?”
The video then exhibits Valcin grabbing the canine by her head and slamming it into the glass door a number of occasions, whereas saying, “You f—ing dumb b—-,” the report states.
That, police stated, could be the final phrases the defenseless canine would hear. By then, the report states, the Yorkie might not be heard crying; Valcin would throw the canine to the bottom within the nook of the balcony.
The report states that within the video, Valcin then takes a pink procuring cart and “ram(s) it into the dog’s body,” then picks up the lifeless canine and “slams her into the glass one last time.”
In the video, police stated Valcin “continues to call the dog vulgar names and says, ‘Keep f—ing with my s—.’” after which says “If you f—ing die, oh well.”
“The dog is then observed on the opposite side of the balcony in a fetal position, silent and not moving, presumed to be deceased,” police wrote. “(Valcin) goes back inside her home and leaves the dog on the balcony.”
When police and a Miami-Dade Animal Services investigator spoke to Valcin, she first claimed the canine was together with her mom after which, when her mom advised police she didn’t have the canine, claimed it had been stolen, the report states.
The responding officer famous a pink Sedanos procuring cart on Valcin’s balcony and wrote that whereas questioning her, she referred to the canine previously tense, saying her canine “was a Yorkie mix.”
“When questioned about her choice of words, she stated it was a mistake,” the officer wrote. “Animal Services attempted to locate the dog in the trash chute but were unsuccessful in doing so. Due to lack of evidence, (Valcin) was not arrested at that time.”
MDAS returned to the property the subsequent day and an investigator noticed Valcin outdoors of the residence building and, when she requested why the investigator was there, he replied that he was there to analyze an animal cruelty criticism.
Valcin, police stated, “confirmed her identity to the investigator and told him her dog was stolen.”
“The investigator asked (Valcin) if the dog was in the trash chute, or the dumpster located on the property and (she) appeared to become nervous and walked away,” police wrote.
An investigator, after not with the ability to discover the canine’s physique in a bin linked to the building’s trash chute, later met with the property supervisor — who gave Valcin the canine as a present — and reviewed CCTV footage, which confirmed Valcin tossing a black bag right into a dumpster, police stated.
According to police, investigators discovered the bag and the canine’s physique.
“The dog was wrapped inside a gray baby blanket stuffed inside of the black bag along with other garbage,” police wrote. “The dog was deceased.”
A necropsy concluded the canine died from blunt drive trauma by the use of a cranium fracture.
Police would convey Valcin in for questioning Tuesday. She advised them, the report states, that on the evening of the beating, she had come home after consuming and “realized that her dog damaged her sliding door, causing two holes to it.”
The remainder of her assertion was redacted from the report.
Police arrested Valcin on a felony cost of animal cruelty with intent to injure or kill. She was being held within the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center on a $5,000 bond as of Wednesday afternoon, in accordance with jail data.
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