California dog trainer charged with animal cruelty, deaths of 11 dogs

A California canine trainer is facing felony charges aft constabulary accidental 11 dogs died portion successful his care

Eleven dogs died portion successful the attraction of a California canine trainer and prosecutors accidental helium and his woman tried to destruct the grounds by dropping disconnected the dogs' bodies astatine antithetic crematoriums.

Kwong (Tony) Chun Sit, of Irvine, pleaded not blameworthy Monday successful Orange County Superior Court to 11 counts of carnal cruelty, 11 counts of carnal maltreatment by a caretaker, 7 counts of attempting to destruct grounds and 1 number of demolition of evidence, according to the Orange County District Attorney's Office.

Tingfeng Liu, of Vista, who is dating Sit, pleaded not blameworthy Monday to accessory to a felony and demolition of evidence, constabulary said.

Sit, 53, and Liu, 23, are some are successful custody connected $550,000 bail each. Prosecutors said the mates was packed and acceptable to fly erstwhile they were arrested connected Thursday. Each has been assigned a nationalist defender, prosecutors said.

A favored proprietor contacted constabulary past week saying their canine trainer told them their canine had died and had been cremated, constabulary spokesperson Kyle Oldoerp said.

Investigators since person determined that 11 dogs died and that 9 of them died connected oregon astir Wednesday, constabulary said.

Aimee Gutierrez said successful a societal media station that her household respective weeks earlier had adopted a 9-month-old Belgian Malinois and named her Saint. She said the idiosyncratic they trusted to assistance bid Saint informed her by substance that Saint had died successful her sleep.

“We were not fixed details,” Gutierrez said. We were not fixed the alteration to accidental goodbye. We aboriginal learned that she had been cremated without our consent oregon knowledge."

Another canine was besides cremated, constabulary said. The Irvine Police Department’s Animal Services Unit recovered the bodies of aggregate dogs that prosecutors accidental had been dropped disconnected by either Sit oregon Liu astatine crematoriums.

Necropsies performed connected 3 of the dogs amusement 2 of the dogs died from vigor changeable and the 3rd canine died from blunt unit trauma, prosecutors said. Necropsies are pending connected the remaining six animals.

All but 1 of the dogs was dropped disconnected astatine crematoriums past Wednesday. The assemblage of the archetypal canine was dropped disconnected connected June 13.

Sit worked passim Southern California nether antithetic institution names, including Happy K9 Academy, constabulary said. A website with that institution sanction lists Tony Sit arsenic the writer of its blog posts. It says their services see boarding and grooming but doesn't springiness a boarding installation code oregon different circumstantial information. An code listed connected the website is that of a nationalist parkland successful Tustin, California.

The constabulary probe is ongoing, Oldoerp said.

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