A woman in Ohio is facing an animal cruelty charge after police say her dog died inside a hot car.
According to local reports, officers in Sandusky were called to a home on a Saturday evening around 7:20 p.m. after a neighbor asked for help for a pit bull named Chapo. The neighbor told police he saw the dog’s owner, Mouheb, who is 58 years old, put Chapo in the back of her car. Police say that when the neighbor urged her to let the dog out, she replied, “I don’t care. I want him to die.”
Officers say that by the time they arrived and broke a window to reach Chapo, the dog had died. Police described the inside of the car as damaged and covered in blood from the dog trying to get out. The temperature was reported to be 81 degrees at the time.
Police say Mouheb told officers she put the dog in the car as punishment after it attacked another one of her dogs. Her remaining animals, a 2 year old dog and three 6 month old puppies, were removed from the home. She was booked into the Erie County Jail on an animal cruelty charge.
These are the allegations as described by police and the neighbor. Reports did not include a response from Mouheb or an attorney on her behalf, and a charge is not a finding of guilt.
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