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- Florida, USA -


State Attorney Dennis Ward for the Sixteenth Judicial Circuit announced that 69-year-old EDMUND CHRISTOPHER JAMES (pictured), has been found guilty of animal cruelty, a first-degree misdemeanor.


The four-day trial, presided over by Judge James W. Morgan III, culminated in a unanimous guilty verdict after less than four hours of jury deliberation.


The conviction stems from an incident that happened on July 5, 2024, when JAMES left his 5-month-old chocolate Labrador retriever named Jasmine locked in a hot car for several hours on his property on Aviation Boulevard with no food or water.

When eventually JAMES found Jasmine suffering from heat-related distress, he tried to cool her down with a hose and then took her to Keys Animal Hospital in Marathon.


Jasmine arrived in critical condition and presented symptoms consistent with severe heatstroke, including neurological distress, elevated body temperature, and swelling of the brain.

Although veterinary staff managed to stabilize Jasmine by administrating IV fluids and oxygen, they advised JAMES that Jasmine needed advanced treatment and urgently recommended she be transferred immediately to a facility in Ramrod Key.


Instead, JAMES took Jasmine back home where her condition worsened leading to multiple seizures. The following day Jasmine passed away after she suffered needlessly because of JAMES’ reckless disregard for her precious life.


On July 9, 2024, the Monroe County Sheriff’s Office arrested JAMES and charged him with animal cruelty.


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JAMES’ mugshot shared from the Monroe County Sheriff's Office




- Georgia, USA -


~ Update: May 21, 2023


On May 18, 2023, a Superior Court Jury found ERIC TOLBERT (pictured), not guilty on all animal cruelty charges involving the PREVENTABLE and CRUEL deaths of his three dogs!


In January 2023, TOLBERT, a Rockdale County sheriff’s deputy, was indicted on three counts of felony aggravated cruelty to animals and two counts of misdemeanor cruelty to animals.


The three Voiceless Victims, LaLa, LukeCage, and Storm, were American Bulldogs, a breathing-impaired breed and TOLBERT should have known better!


These innocent souls lost their precious lives in June 2022. They died in a shed on TOLBERT’s property when temperatures reached a sweltering 95 degrees.


Four months later, a jury tells TOLBERT: “Well done! Don’t worry about it, they’re just dogs, their lives didn’t matter! Go on with your life!”

That’s not all! The Citizens reports: “Tolbert, who had been placed on administrative leave with pay, will return to full active duty, according to the Sheriff’s Office.”


Ms. Daphna Nachminovitch, Senior Vice President of the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), said: “There’s no excuse for leaving any dogs, let alone breathing-impaired ones such as LaLa, Luke Cage, and Storm, to wallow in their own waste while panting out their last agonizing breaths in a stifling shed in 95-degree heat. Hot weather is especially dangerous for American bullies and other flat-faced breeds, since their distorted airways make it difficult for them to breathe—and with summer approaching, PETA urges everyone to keep their dogs indoors, never chain or confine them outdoors or in sheds, and speak up if they know of any animals in danger of enduring the kind of horrific deaths that Tolbert’s dogs experienced.”


A lot of people out there have made it their mission to fight for animal rights.

On a daily basis, rescue organizations take in countless animal victims of abuse.

I feel that for every step we take forward, then something appalling and despicable like this verdict happens, that pushes us back to the starting point undoing all efforts made to demand harsh sentences.

Who the hell was in that jury!? How the hell will each and every one of you be able to sleep at night?

Had those dogs been children….





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Rockdale County District Attorney Alisha Johnson announced that on Tuesday, January 10, 2023, Rockdale County Sheriff’s Office Deputy ERIC TOLBERT (pictured), has been indicted by a grand jury for three counts of felony aggravated cruelty to animals and two counts of misdemeanor cruelty to animals, reports PETA.


The charges stem from the PREVENTABLE, CRUEL, and SENSELESS deaths of his American Bulldogs (a breathing-impaired breed), named LaLa, LukeCage, and Storm. The furbabies died in June in a shed on TOLBERT’s property when temperatures reached a sweltering 95 degrees.


The charges also refer to his K-9, a black Labrador Retriever named Aegis, who was found “neglected and confined to a hot, filthy pen filled with mold-covered feces,” and another dog, a Pitbull, kept in squalid, feces-littered pens with dirty water buckets. Aegis was removed by county officials but the other dog was left with TOLBERT and his condition and whereabouts are currently unknown.


FOX Carolina reports that when Rockdale County Sheriff’s Investigator Colleen Jones executed a search warrant at TOLBERT’s residence, he was not there. Jones spoke to TOLBERT on the phone, explained that she was at his property to investigate and asked him where the dogs were. Reportedly, TOLBERT answered, “I didn’t have a way to bury them so I trashed them.” To that, Jones said: “You did what with them?” TOLBERT then answered: “Put them in the trash.”


Officials found “unsanitary conditions and the improper disposal of his personal dogs, which was in violation of Georgia law.”


Although Jones believed she had enough to charge TOLBERT with animal cruelty, County judge Nancy Bills, however, refused to sign a warrant for arrest because Jones’ relation to TOLBERT constitutes a “conflict of interest.”

Judge Bills believed the sheriff’s department should have turned the case over to the Georgia Bureau of Investigation. Furthermore, in addition to the denial of a warrant for arrest, the district attorney refused to prosecute because of a “lack of evidence.”


At the time, the only discipline TOLBERT faced was a 32-hour suspension and the removal of his K9 handler status.


It’s disgraceful, that TOLBERT was initially spared from facing legal consequences and that thanks to PETA this filthy murderer will now get what’s coming to him!


After charges were finally filed against TOLBERT, PETA said in a news release: “Now, following three months of action by PETA, during which we sent letters, held demonstrations, and encouraged supporters to take action, Rockdale County District Attorney Alisha Johnson has finally charged Tolbert with cruelty to animals.”


LukeCage, LaLa, and Storm depended on TOLBERT “for protection, but he left them to suffer and die” rightfully said PETA.

TOLBERT cruelly, carelessly, and selfishly kept the VOICELESS VICTIMS “crated without adequate ventilation in a squalid outdoor shed, where the walls were stained with urine and moldy feces had piled up beneath the crates. After the first dog died, Tolbert couldn’t even be bothered to keep the other two safe indoors. Instead, he left them in the shed while he went to work the next day, and they died, too.”


In a statement, PETA Senior Vice President Daphna Nachminovitch said: “Nothing can bring these dogs back or make up for their suffering, but these charges send the message that there are consequences for anyone who causes dogs’ agonizing deaths, including those charged with enforcing the law. PETA is calling for Deputy Eric Tolbert to be barred from owning animals for life so that no other dog dies slowly and painfully in his stifling shed as LaLa, LukeCage, and Storm did.”


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- Maryland, USA -


~ Update: July 29, 2022


I have heard back from the Baltimore County State’s Attorney’s Office and sadly learned that “Several of the dogs, unfortunately, were not able to be rehabilitated.”


Adam Lippe, Chief Animal Abuse Unit, declined to provide me with HANNAH’s mugshot.



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The Baltimore County State’s Attorney’s Office announced that on Wednesday, July 27, 2022, in the Baltimore County Circuit Court, a jury convicted 47-years-old COREY ELVIN HANNAH on 17 counts of aggravated animal cruelty, animal abuse and animal neglect.

The trial was before the Honorable Judith C. Ensor.

Officials said it took the jury only 90 minutes to convict HANNAH.


The case stems back two years ago when acting on a tip about a dogfighting ring, an investigation was conducted jointly by the Baltimore County Police Department and Animal Services from both Baltimore County and Baltimore City.


In a news release the Baltimore County State’s Attorney’s Office said that the investigation led to the execution of a search warrant at HANNAH's residence on Worthington Avenue in Reisterstown on May 27, 2020.


At the residence authorities found 26 dogs in poor condition. According to the release, 5 of the dogs had numerous injuries and serious untreated medical conditions.

The release further stated that the jury found that 4 of the dogs had been tortured.


According to WBAL, investigators believe that HANNAH also took in other people’s abandoned dogs who were mangled, beaten, and cut for Pitbull fights.

One of the dogs was missing his/her ears.


As indicated in the release, “At the time of the execution of the warrant, all of the dogs were taken and have been treated successfully.”

However, WBALTV reports that: “Some of the dogs were in such bad shape, that they had to be put down.”

In regard to this, I have emailed the Baltimore County State’s Attorney’s Office and requested to clarify this.


State's Attorney Scott Shellenberger expressed his gratitude to Animal Services and the Police Department and Assistant State Attorney Adam Lippe for their excellent work in protecting the dogs from further torture or even death and said: “Domestic animals are unquestionably among those which we have an obligation to protect from harm and mistreatment. Thankfully, in this case we have succeeded in doing so.”


HANNAH is scheduled to be back in court on October 13, 2022, for sentencing.

He faces 17 years behind bars and I truly hope he will serve them all!!!!


Once again, I want to express my loathing and anger toward people like COREY ELVIN HANNAH who make a dishonest living at the expense of innocent animals. Blood money in return for torture, abuse, pain, and neglect! HANNAH, how can you expect and demand your life be respected when you do not hesitate to harm, torture, and kill innocent beings unable to defend themselves?

COREY ELVIN HANNAH, animals lives matter. Lives like yours, however, do not!


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