Crime & Safety
Riverview Man Charged With Making Bomb Threat to Animal Shelter
Peter Dalessandro is accused of making violent threats against employees at a Brooksville animal shelter that has come under fire for euthanizing an 8-month-old pit bull.
A Riverview man is charged with making violent threats against people accused of killing dogs, TBO.com reports.
Peter Dalessandro, 52, of 4422 Barnstead Dr., turned himself in Wednesday night at the Hillsborough County Jail, according to TBO, which cited Brooksville Police Chief George Turner.
Dalessandro is accused of leaving six "vulgar and threatening phone messages" last week for employees at Hernando County Animal Services in Brooksville, TBO reports, including a threat to bomb the facility.
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The Brooksville shelter has been criticized since employees euthanized an 8-month-old pit bull 15 minutes after a relative of the dog's owner brought it in earlier this month, the Lakeland Ledger reports.
Dalessandro is thought to have made similar threats in 2001 against an Iowa man accused of animal cruelty, according to TBO.
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He was being held on $31,250 bond.
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