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Police serve search warrant at Kahaluu home for possible animal cruelty case

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  • 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.

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.

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