Man Charged in 2 Pet Killings Sought by Montgomery Police

ROCKVILLE, MD — A man already facing charges in Montgomery County for allegedly beating a former girlfriend’s cat to death is now charged with leaving another girlfriend’s puppy in a hot car, causing its death, authorities say.

Montgomery County Police are searching for Brandon Prescott Crarey, 30, of Prince George’s County, who faces multiple counts of animal abuse ranging from inflicting unnecessary suffering and pain to depriving of necessary sustenance in the two cases.

In the more recent incident, Crarey was living with a woman in Olney when he took the girlfriend’s 10-week-old male Irish setter puppy, named Patriot. Crarey was supposed to drive the puppy to his girlfriend’s workplace, but instead went to get his hair cut, and left the dog in the car for about two hours as temperatures reached 98 degrees on Sept. 8, WJLA reports.

When Crarey returned to find the dog had died, he reportedly drove to a Gaithersburg Pizza Hut and dumped the pet’s body in the restaurant Dumpster. Texts he sent to the girlfriend told her that the dog had died.

"I was HIGH, I didn't know what else to do. I panicked,” Crarey reportedly texted.

He also faces charges in the February death of a previous girlfriend’s cat, county animal cruelty investigator Jack Breckenridge told WTOP. A necropsy determined that Crarey killed the animal using blunt force, striking it in the chest and breaking ribs. Breckenridge said and he was charged with felony animal cruelty.

“This case has gotten a lot of my personal attention because I’m concerned for the victims and their welfare or that he’s victimizing additional animals,” Breckenridge said.

Anyone who knows Crarey’s whereabouts is asked to call police at 1-866-411-8477.