PETA Offering $5,000 For Information Leading To Arrest Of Whoever Stuffed Dog In Suitcase

PETA is offering a $5,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction whoever threw a black nylon suitcase in Sunset Lake in Asbury Park recently with a deceased young pit bull inside.

Police think the suitcase had been in the lake for one to two weeks. A necropsy indicated that the medium-sized dog was about a year old.

"This community needs to know whether this dog was dead or alive when he was put in this suitcase, because a dog abuser may be at large and strike again," says PETA Vice President Colleen O'Brien. "PETA urges anyone who has information about who had this dog in their possession, whether he was used in fights, and how he died to come forward now."

Also found in the suitcase was a button that read "I love Howard University."

Anyone with information about this case is encouraged to contact the Monmouth County SPCA at 732-542-0040 or the Monmouth County Sheriff's Office at 732-431-6400.

For more information about helping animals, please visit PETA.org.