- Arizona, USA -
The Apache Junction Police Department arrested SPENCER ALLEN (pictured below) after he was captured on video dragging his own dog, Cosmo, chained up to his pickup truck.
The incident happened on April 9, 2021, and ALLEN, former Mesa Police officer, resigned in May 2021, before his arrest. On the day of the incident, ALLEN was off-duty.
FOX10 obtained the incident report according to which one of the witnesses, Mr. Eric Read, was driving east on 37th Avenue when he saw ALLEN going the opposite direction.
Mr. Read noticed a medium-sized brown dog who was being dragged by ALLEN’s vehicle.
According to Mr. Read, he quickly made a U-turn, honked at ALLEN, and waved at him, but his attempts were unsuccessful because ALLEN just kept driving.
Thankfully, another driver was able to get ALLEN to pull over near Idaho Road and Baseline Avenue, half a mile away from where Mr. Read first spotted the furbaby being dragged.
According to the police report, at that point ALLEN unchained the dog, picked him up by the scruff of the neck, and threw him in the back seat.
Mr. Eric Read told FOX10: “What sticks out in my mind is the chain wrapped around the dog's neck and the dog was trying to stop, sitting down with the paws right in front of him.”
ALLEN then took Cosmo to Paws & Claws Care Center in Apache Junction and claimed that he had found him on the side of the road and he was just doing a good deed.
ALLEN’s lies did not stop there, in fact, when he was told by the staff that the dog needed immediate medical attention and referred him to a veterinarian in Mesa, ALLEN lied to the vet too. Not only did he say that the dog should be euthanized, but he even signed a form stating the furbaby was a stray.
Although the Arizona Humane Society performed surgery on Cosmo, he was euthanized a few days later.
Officer Casey Sheahan, with the Apache Junction Animal Control, said: “The dog had lost a lot of skin across all of its body. I believe it also had a puncture to the lung.”
FOX10 reports that when ALLEN was questioned by Apache Junction Police, at first he denied the dog was his, but investigators told him they had surveillance video as well as witnesses.
ALLEN then admitted that Cosmo was his and that he had had him for seven years.
He had the nerve to say he felt bad and said: “But I was like, ‘He needs to be put down either way,’ so that's what I was hoping for. I should've just footed the bill.’”
On April 15, Mesa Police began a professional standards review but ALLEN resigned on May 4, ultimately ending the review. He was then charged on May 6.
ALLEN is accused of animal cruelty, falsifying information to police, and forgery.
He is currently out of jail on the conditions of his release.
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What a horrible human being. He should be tied to truck and dragged. There NO EXCUSE for this behavior.