GUILTY: MAN STABBED AND LIT LIVE DOG ON FIRE.
Bakersfield pd contacted Orlando Vela pushing a shopping cart w/ a dog that was engulfed in flames.
After a full investigation, jury convicted on charges of animal cruelty, arson, brandishing a weapon at officers, & resisting arrest.
A jury on Thursday convicted Vela, 37, of arson, animal cruelty and brandishing a deadly weapon at police. He faces up to 31 years in prison.
“Dogs will often lay down their lives for their owners, and for a man to return that loyalty by stabbing his dog to death and lighting it on fire displays a level of cruelty seldom seen, and which absolutely will not go unpunished,” District Attorney Cynthia Zimmer said in the release.
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