A local man is facing charges following an incident of alleged deliberate animal electrocution a couple months ago.
According to a criminal complaint filed by the Butler City Police, 40-year-old Paul Plakidas has been charged with felony risking catastrophe and felony aggravated cruelty to an animal.
Around 2:30 a.m. on September 1st officers responded to a call from a woman who said her boyfriend, identified as Plakidas, was not acting like himself. She also said that she believed he had killed her dog.
When police asked an intoxicated Plakidas about the dog, he told officers that it was dead. He also told police that someone had put the dog in a cooler filled with water then used a wire to electrocute it to death. Finally, Plakidas told police that he had been alone at the house since his girlfriend had left an hour before.
Officers located the cooler filled with water and the electrical cable in the basement and found the dog’s body in a garbage can next to the house.
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