A guest from hell strangled his host’s English bulldog, then horribly scattered the dismembered dog’s remains in Westchester County dumpsters, local prosecutors said.
Benjamin Tyler, 39, was arrested for the disturbing crime but was quickly released because the animal cruelty charge was not eligible for bail under state law, according to the Westchetser District Attorney’s Office.
Tyler, 39, of New Milford, Connecticut, was staying with a 41-year-old man at an apartment on Huguenot Street in New Rochelle when he allegedly kidnapped the purebred dog named Bruno on the morning of Dec. 6, according to cops and authorities. prosecutors. .
Tyler allegedly strangled Bruno and then dismembered him “in a particularly depraved manner,” cutting off all four of his limbs, according to a complaint filed in New Rochelle Municipal Court.
Bruno’s torso was found in a 5-gallon orange bucket stuffed in a dumpster on Second Street in New Rochelle, prosecutors said.
Her head and both legs were found separately in a brown cardboard Zara box, left in another dumpster on Union Avenue, according to the complaint.
A doctor at Westchester Animal Hospital determined Bruno had been strangled to death because of tiny spots visible in his eyes, indicating broken blood vessels, the prosecutor’s office said.
Surveillance video from the building shows Tyler leaving the apartment with both the orange bucket and the cardboard box, according to prosecutors.
New Rochelle police detectives and ASPCA agents immediately launched an investigation and obtained an arrest warrant for Tyler, cops said.
Tyler turned himself in to police Monday and was charged with the sickening crime, authorities said.
He was arraigned the same day in New Rochelle Municipal Court before Judge Jared Rice, who released him on his own recognizance.
Another alleged animal killer, Alberto Morris, 33, was released on probation by a Brooklyn judge last month after allegedly throwing his friend’s beloved pit bull to death from a 14th floor balcony.
Aggravated cruelty to animals, a felony, carries a maximum sentence of two years in prison in New York state.
