POMPANO BEACH, Fla. – A woman is facing animal cruelty charges after deputies with the Broward Sheriff’s Office said she left a 6-month-old chihuahua locked outside in a cage to die outside of her Pompano Beach home.
Deputies said 19-year-old Angelica Mar left the dog, Luna, outside with no food or water for “multiple days.”
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Two bowls of water were a mere 5 feet away from the cage, but out of reach for the locked-in puppy, BSO Deputy Therdens Conserve wrote in an an arrest report.
Conserve wrote that he responded to Mar’s home in the 3700 block of Northeast 15th Avenue on Thursday after authorities received an anonymous tip about “a dead dog in a cage with a foul smell.”
“(A)s soon as I stepped out of my car, from the street, I could smell the obvious odor of decomposition,” he wrote.
Conserve wrote that after getting permission to enter the next-door neighbor’s backyard, he saw a “small black dog with numerous flies surrounding it,” locked inside the double-latched cage.
He wrote that he knocked on Mar’s door and she answered. Her statement to authorities was redacted from the arrest report.
Authorities believe Luna likely died of heat exhaustion.
Online records show Mar was set to leave the BSO Main Jail on a $10,000 bond Friday on charges of animal cruelty causing death and unlawful confinement of an animal without food or water.