LAS VEGAS (FOX5) — Police detailed the investigation that led to the arrest of a man accused of leaving a dog in a kennel to die in the Las Vegas summer heat.
According to an arrest report from the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department, investigators received a tip on July 11 and found the French bulldog in the kennel near the 100 block of North 27th Street, near Charleston Boulevard and Fremont Street in east Las Vegas.
Investigators gathered video from surrounding homes and businesses and took fingerprints and DNA left on the kennel, the report said. They identified a video showing two men dragging a large kennel covered with a sheet to a dumpster. Police said the men could be seen adjusting the sheet to cover the kennel and leaving on foot.
The evidence led to Darrion Garry, the report said. During an interview, Garry told investigators that the dog, named Louie, had been left outside on July 9 with food and water in its kennel. The next morning, Garry said he woke up, followed his morning routine, and then spent a couple of hours playing video games before checking on Louie. Garry told police Louie wasn’t moving anymore and was dead.
Garry told police he couldn’t call out from work because “he had already called too many times,” so he placed a white sheet over the cage until he and his brother, who lived in the same complex, could move it, according to the report. They rolled it to the location where law enforcement officials found it and left the scene.
According to the report, a necropsy showed the dog died from symptoms of heat exhaustion and was in a state of advanced decomposition when it was discovered. Investigators determined that on the day the dog died, temperatures reached a high of 108 degrees, fell to 106 degrees in the evening, and remained at 97 degrees at night.
Garry faces a felony charge of willful or malicious torture, maiming or killing of an animal. He is scheduled to appear in court Oct. 30.
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