Police serve search warrant at Kahaluu home for possible animal cruelty case
CINDY ELLEN RUSSELL / CRUSSELL@STARADVERTISER.COM
Police are investigating a possible case of animal cruelty and are waiting for a search warrant to enter a home to check on other animals today in Kahaluu.
Police served a search warrant at a Mahakea Road home about 7:20 p.m. today to check on animals in a reported puppy mill operation in Kahaluu.
Police served a search warrant at a Mahakea Road home about 7:20 p.m. Saturday to check on animals in a reported puppy mill operation in Kahaluu.
Police responded Saturday morning to a report of live dogs being thrown into a city trash bin on Mahakea Road and found one live dog and one dead dog, police said.
Based on the condition of the dead dog, a hound mix, officers arrested one man for investigation of second-degree animal cruelty case.
The second dog was taken in poor condition to a private veterinarian’s clinic for treatment.
A Hawaiian Humane Society spokeswoman said authorities are waiting for a search warrant to be approved to enter the property and assess the condition of other dogs heard on the property.
Police said there may be another 20 dogs inside.
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The man arrested was also arrested in 2005 for a similar case and the Humane Society confiscated multiple dogs, but they were later returned under a judge’s order, the Humane Society spokeswoman said.
30 responses to “Police serve search warrant at Kahaluu home for possible animal cruelty case”
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Poor neighbors.Their lives must be living hell with 20 dogs next door.
See his face on the news soon…
Poor neighbors? Poor dogs!!! Neighbors have the means to do something about the conditions but the dogs are helpless!
The “natives” are especially cruel to animals police records show. Why is that?
They are restless Kimo Sabe!
Yes those ” Native ” from North Dakota are really crazy and cruel to animals, especially after drinking fire water!.
Allie you must have an inside knowledge that was a “native” involved. What kind of “native”? Hawaiian? American Indian?..
mandan!
Anyone convicted of animal cruelty is entered into the FBI’s Animal Abuser database for every law enforcement agency to access. Their for life.
Prisoners rate animal abusers just above those who abuse children. They are swift to administer these dregs of the earth a 55 gallon barrel of Whoop B u t t. Abuser in the article below was so badly abused he had to wear an adult diaper for weeks.
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=f53_1455306120
James Montgomery is his name, which doesn’t sound native to Hawaii. This kind rubbish should go back to where they came from.
The dogs’ owners are animals–themselves.
Don’t denigrate non-human animals. Nothing worse in the animal kingdom than humans.
Wrong, it’s politicians who aren’t human.
I hope the judge in this case is smarter than the one in 2005.
Just hope it’s not Judge Ahn…
I have lost all respect for judges in Hawaii. Are they afraid to order harsher punishment? How can an abuser’s record be wiped clean? As a dog lover I cannot understand how a teacher could be so cruel! I feel sorry for his students!
Judge should sentence the owner to 10 years in a rubbish bin. Trash belongs in trash bins.
yes, throw this guy away
20 years would fit the crime a little better.
Put this animal in a cage and throw away the key. Let this animal sit in own crap.
AHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
How about an island version of “Thunder Dome?” Two enter the Thunder Dome, animal abuser and the biggest, meanest, pit bull on the island. Door is closed. Only one can leave. Care to bet who it will be?
Not a pit. Maybe a Cane Corso.
Chain him in some barn on a ranch and let him live with the animals where there’s no bathroom.
Police served a warrant and and and?
What a mess. This story jumps between today and yesterday with little regard for what’s been done vs. what HPD is waiting to do.
Did a 6-year old update this story?
Never mind, he or she would have done better.
The pooches are worth more than this POS. . . . . and, probably smarter!
I really feel for those dogs who have no means to address this cruelty. But since this has happened befe…enough is enough…show no mercy and make sure he is incarcerated and let the penal community handle. If not get our own community to handle. Haven’t we often spoke of “Zero Tolerance”?
Why the f did the judge return dogs to this person…..jeeezz
Judge Rhonda Nishimura.