- New York, USA -
On Thursday, September 30, police officers with the NYPD's Animal Cruelty Investigation Squad arrived at a home on 649 E 94th Street in East Flatbush, Brooklyn, to discover a horrific scene.
Twenty innocent dogs, from puppies to adults, were found living in a vile hoarding situation.
The furbabies were being kept without food or water, chained, and forced to live in their own feces and urine causing discoloration to their legs. Some of them had cuts.
One dog was found chained to a radiator and another to a dishwasher.
The poor dogs were so severely malnourished that could not walk on their own and had to be carried out of that hellish place by members of the ASPCA.
Some of the poor souls had never left the apartment or breathed fresh air.
A neighbor said the dogs could be heard barking at all hours of the night and said it had been going on for about a year.
Authorities arrested 26-years-old RAVON SERVICE (pictured below), and 27-years-old TAFANIEL MICHAUD.
SERVICE was charged with twenty counts of torturing animals, twenty counts of neglect of impounded animals, one count of criminal mischief, and two counts of acting injurious to a child as the dogs’ urine was dropping into an apartment where a child lived below.
MICHAUD was just charged with criminal mischief.
The duo were then released on a desk appearance ticket.
Adrian Ashby, with the NYPD Animal Cruelty Investigation Squad told NBC New York: “In late August, we received a call from the homeowner asking for help, and when she gave us the name (of the resident), we said we know exactly who this guy is and what we're dealing with.”
That's because SERVICE has done something like this before. He had been hoarding animals at a home in Bay Ridge — moving to the East Flatbush apartment during the pandemic — and his then-landlord was tipped off when dog urine started seeping through the floors and onto their walls, reports, NBC New York.
The dogs rescued by the ASPCA were taken to a facility to be evaluated and fed.
Eventually, they will be put up for adoption.
The New York Post reports that after SERVICE was released, later that night he returned to the home and attacked his landlady, Mrs. Kennisha Gilbert (pictured below), and her husband, for reporting him to the authorities.
Mrs. Gilbert, an OB-GYN physician who practices in New Jersey, needed stitches for her wounds, while her husband was still at Brookdale University Hospital Medical Center due to the severity of his injuries.
SERVICE was arrested and charged with assault, menacing and harassment.
The relatives he took along to beat up Mrs. Gilbert were also taken into custody.
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