LEAVENWORTH, Kan. (AP) — A Kansas man has been arrested for animal cruelty after he allegedly threw his girlfriend’s caged miniature poodle into a river Monday.
Police said the man, identified according to jail records as 24-year-old Davion Arnell Simpson tossed the kenneled dog into the Missouri River at Riverfront Park in Leavenworth, Kansas.
Leavenworth Police Maj. Dan Nicodemus said that the man took his girlfriend’s dogs after a fight. Her Chihuahua was spotted running loose at another park, and her brindle pug terrier was with her boyfriend’s family.