ST. PAUL, Minn. — A 37-year-old man has been charged after his dogs allegedly attacked slightly woman whereas she was walking home in St. Paul final month.
Marco Antonio Mendoza Landaverde was charged Friday with two counts every of failing to restrain an animal from inflicting bodily damage to a different person and never vaccinating his pets in opposition to rabies.
On Feb. 8, officers had been referred to as to the 600 block of Van Buren Avenue simply earlier than 5 p.m. on a report of a woman being bitten by a bunch of dogs.
The household of the injured woman advised WCCO that Sacadiya Abdulahi was walking her 7-year-old daughter Sumaya from her bus cease once they had been surrounded by 5 dogs. The woman had items of her nostril, ear and thigh bitten off, in line with the household.
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Charging paperwork filed in Ramey County say the dogs stopped attacking and ran away when a automobile honked its horn. The driver of the automobile was later recognized as Mendoza Landaverde.
Mendoza Landaverde advised police he let the dogs out on the afternoon of the incident however did not understand the gate was open.
Charges say Mendoza Landaverde was solely in a position to present proof of rabies vaccinations for 2 of the 5 dogs. Investigators additionally discovered that Mendoza Landaverde didn’t license any of the dogs and didn’t have a allow permitting him to personal greater than three dogs.
All 5 of the dogs had been declared harmful and had been surrendered to the St. Paul Animal Control, the place they had been euthanized.
NOTE: The video above initially aired on Feb. 9, 2024.
