Crime & Safety
SPCA: West Islip Man Threw His Dog in Canal With Cinder Block Around Neck
Man arrested Friday following a months long investigation, officials say.
A West Islip man tied a cinder block around the neck of his family’s dog and then threw the dog into a canal behind his home in September, Suffolk County SPCA officials said Saturday.
John Shultz, 66, was arrested on Friday and charged with felony animal cruelty, which carries a maximum sentence of two years in prison.
Shultz was arrested following an investigation that began in September when the dog’s dead body was found floating in a canal behind a home on Secatogue Lane East, according to Suffolk SPCA Chief Roy Gross.
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The results of the necropsy found changes in the dog’s lungs consistent with drowning, Gross said.
Gross said in September “that it is unconscionable to believe that anyone could commit such a heinous act of animal cruelty.”
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Shultz, who lives at 14 Secatogue Lane East, was held overnight at the Third Precinct and was due to be arraigned at First District Court in Central Islip Saturday.
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