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MITCHELL ALAN GENS arrested – He shot a hog with an A-15 rifle multiple times causing his/her death

  - Florida, USA -

 

The Indian River County Sheriff’s Office arrested 42-years-old MITCHELL ALAN GENS (pictured).

 

According to the arrest affidavit obtained by Voice For Us, on December 15, 2023, a deputy responded to a property on 11111 138th Avenue in reference to a hog who had been shot.

 

Upon arrival, a couple of witnesses told the deputy that GENS had chased their brown breeding hog from his property to theirs. They also said that as one of them was approaching GENS, GENS said he was going to kill the hog.

After hearing that threat, the witness became afraid of further confrontation with GENS who was also carrying a rifle.

 

As the hog ran back to his/her pen, GENS shot the defenseless animal with an AR-15 multiple times in the hip and belly area causing the hog to suffer before his/her death.

According to the witnesses, GENS had also shot the hog in the foot the night before.

 

One of the two witnesses took a picture of GENS as he was leaving the scene carrying a rifle and then showed it to the deputy.

The deputy looked at the deceased hog and reported seeing three gunshot wounds. One in the hip, one in the side of the belly, and one in the side rib cage area.

 

When GENS was contacted and questioned via cell phone, he told the deputy that the hog was going through his garbage and he tried to shoot him/her while chasing him/her off  his property but missed. GENS added that he was “allowed to shoot nuisance animals”, stated the affidavit.

GENS then agreed to meet with the deputy at the sheriff’s office to further discuss the incident.

 

During the interview, GENS stated that the hog had been rummaging through his trash numerous times in the past and that the day of the incident he caught him/her on his property going through his trash, so he took the rifle and shot the hog while he/she was still on the property.

According to GENS' statement, after being shot, the hog ran back to his/her pen and as GENS was following the animal, one of the two witnesses approached him. At that point GENS said he was going to kill the hog and the witness told him to go ahead. GENS stated he shot the hog approximately eight more times.

 

The murderer was placed under arrest on Sunday, December 17, 2023, and booked into the Indian River County Jail for felony Aggravated Animal Cruelty, which includes inflicting pain, serious physical injury, or death to an animal.

The following day GENS was released after posting a $1,000 bond. Court records show that GENS, of Fellsmare, is scheduled to be arraigned on February 1, 2024, at 10:00 a.m. before Judge Robert Meadows.

 

According to the affidavit, “The witnesses did not want to pursue charges for the incident.”

 

Authorities did not disclose the hog’s name so I took the liberty of naming the Voiceless Victim Cinnamon for the tribute image. Should his/her given name be made public, I will rectify it accordingly.

 

Disclaimer: This story is sourced from court documents.

 

GENS’s mugshot shared from the Indian River County Sheriff’s Office.

 





 
 
 

ANTHONY LEE BELLMAN accused of throwing a live sixteen-year-old dog in a dumpster like trash

- Florida, USA -


During a press conference, Lee County Sheriff Carmine Marceno announced the arrest of 55-years-old ANTHONY LEE BELLMAN (pictured).

 

On Thursday, December 14, 2023, at 4:23 p.m. the Lee County Sheriff’ Office received a call from employees of the Family Dollar on 630 Bell Boulevard South in Lehigh Acres. The employees reported finding a trash bag inside the dumpster behind the store with something moving inside. When the employees opened the bag, they found a 16-year-old Shih Tzu, named Xyla, who had a  belt around her small neck. The Good Samaritans immediately took the Voiceless Victim to the Blue Pear Animal Hospital.

 

A deputy as well as Lee County Domestic Animal Services met with the Good Samaritans at the hospital.

 

An investigation was immediately launched and detectives obtained surveillance footage of the incident. The footage showed a male, later identified as BELLMAN, “arriving at the dumpster in his vehicle, exiting, clearly removing a bundled up trash bag from within his trunk, and then tossing the bag into the dumpster from several feet away.”      

 

As the investigation progressed, detectives learned that Xyla was micro-chipped and that her original guardians, from Delaware, were dead. According to court documents obtained by Voice For Us, detectives ran an extensive search on the original guardians’ family members and associates and the search returned BELLMAN residing on Carillion Avenue South in Lehigh Acres, approximately a mile away from the scene of the incident.

 

Detectives made contact with BELLAMAN, who was wearing the same clothes as the male in the footage.

The woman residing at the same residence, his wife, Colleen Bellman, turned out to be the daughter of Xyla’s original guardians.

 

A detective interviewed Mrs. Bellman at the residence and made sure there were no other animals. Mrs. Bellman told investigators that when her mother died, she took custody of Xyla. She also said that her husband was going to take Xyla to the Humane Society to put her down.

 

BELLMAN was taken in for questioning and detectives found probable cause to charge him with one felony count of aggravated animal cruelty.

 

BELLMAN was arrested and transported to the Lee County Jail A.K.A. Marceno Motel.

At the press conference Sheriff Marceno said: “Instead of landing in a dumpster, where he belongs, he landed in jail.”

 

Records show BELLMAN posted bond and was released a few hours later.

According to court records, BELLMAN is scheduled to be arraigned at Lee County Circuit Court on January 16, 2024, at 8:30 a.m. before Judge Bruce E. Kyle.

 

As for Xyla, she is still with Lee County Domestic Animal Services “running around”, said Sheriff Marceno. Xyla is partially blind and will soon be ready to be adopted.

 

Court documents reported the post-evaluation opinion of Jennifer E. Meredith, DVM:

 

“The amount of time spent in a trash bag tied in a garbage can as well as with the severe matting and also given her age and possibly underlying cardiovascular disease indicated from my exam and her chest radiographs- she went through harmful and unnecessary suffering and pain during this time. She was also at high risk of suffocation, and heat stroke, and given her possible cardiovascular disease and confirmed severe matting-this would put her at even greater risk of heat stroke and suffocation. Heat stroke and suffocation, strangulation can also lead to secondary organ failure if not treated in time. This in and of itself can also be a very painful experience and the secondary no cardiogenic pulmonary edema that can develop from strangulation is the equivalent of drowning from the inside out.”

 

Voice For Us Disclaimer: This story is sourced from official news outlets. Links included.

Details may be removed or additional information may be provided in future should such sources report an update.

 

 

BELLMAN’s mugshot shared from the Lee County Sheriff’s Office.





 
 
 

LINDSAY VALCIN beat dog to death, rammed the body with a shopping cart, and threw her in a dumpster

- Florida, USA -

 

⚠️WARNING⚠️The article contains details some of you may find distressing⚠️


On Tuesday, December 5, 2023, Miami police arrested 31-years-old LINDSAY VALCIN for murdering an innocent dog.

 

According to the Affidavit obtained by Voice For Us, on November 29, 2023, Miami-Dade County Animal Services Department Animal Welfare Officer Hernandez was called to assist a City of Miami Police Department case in reference to an animal cruelty incident.

 

Officer Hernandez responded to an apartment on 750 Northwest 69th Street and learned from the police officer that a witness saw her downstairs neighbor, VALCIN, grabbing her dog, a small female Yorkie mix, by the tail, throwing the dog against the balcony wall, and hitting the dog with a shopping cart. The witness provided police with a video recording of the incident.

 

Police said the video showed a “partially nude” VALCIN punching the dog several times while saying, “You dumb b----.”

The dog could be heard “screeching” and “crying” during the attack.

Police also said that VALCIN “is then seen grabbing the dog by her tail and slamming her into the glass door on the balcony” and could be heard asking the dog, “Why the f--- would you do that?”

 

The video further showed VALCIN grabbing the dog by her head and slamming her into the glass door many times, while saying, “You f---ing dumb b----.”

From that point on, the furvictim could no longer be heard crying. VALCIN then proceeded to throw the Innocent Soul to the ground in the corner of the balcony. But VALCIN’s evilness did  not stop there. In fact, police said that she takes a red shopping cart and rams it into the dog’s body, then picks up the lifeless dog and slams the furbaby into the glass one last time.

 

Police said that in the video, VALCIN kept calling the deceased dog vulgar names. She can be heard saying: “Keep f---ing with my s---” and “If you f---ing die, oh well.”

 

The filthy murderer then goes back inside the apartment leaving the dog on the balcony in a fetal position, silent and not moving, presumed to be deceased.

 

Officer Hernandez and the police officer made contact with VALCIN and questioned her.

Initially, VALCIN lied to the officers and said that her mother had possession of the dog at the time but her mother belied her statement.

 

The following day, Miami-Dade County Animal Services Department Anti Cruelty Investigator Diaz questioned VALCIN about the dog’s whereabouts and VALCIN claimed that the dog had been stolen. According to the complaint, VALCIN “appeared nervous and did not respond when asked if the dog was disposed of in the garbage”.

 

Later on, that day, Investigator Diaz spoke with Latasha Smith, the manager of the

apartment building where VALCIN lives and Ms. Smith stated that she had given the dog to VALCIN as a gift. Investigator Daiz then obtained surveillance video from Ms. Smith.

 

According to the complaint, the footage showed VALCIN “carrying a black garbage bag out of her apartment and depositing the bag in a large dumpster located approximately 150 yards from the apartment building.”

When Investigator Diaz searched the contents of the dumpster, he discovered the remains of VALCIN’s dog inside of a black garbage bag.

 

Investigator Diaz took the Voiceless Victim to the Animal Services Department Forensic Service where Dr. Maria Serrano, Chief Forensic Veterinarian, performed a necropsy.

The complaint stated: “Dr. Serrano concluded that the cause of death was blunt force trauma, and that the manner of death was a base skull fracture.”

 

The complaint goes on to state that VALCIN “cruelly treated and caused the death of her dog” and that she “is unfit to have custody of any animal.”

 

VALCIN was arrested on one count of animal cruelty with intent to injure or kill and booked into the Miami-Dade County Corrections and Rehabilitation Center. On Wednesday, December 6, 2023, the murderer appeared in bond court where she was appointed a public defender and granted a $5,000 bond. The murderer was ordered to not have no contact with animals.

 

I contacted Miami-Dade County Animal Services and requested additional information about the furvictim and I was told: “The only information I was able to obtain on this dog is that it was a female, black and brown Yorkshire Terrier mix. Because this is still part of an ongoing case, the rest of the information, including the name, approximate age, and photos taken of the pet, are not available.”

 

I took the liberty of naming the Voiceless Victim Poinsettia for the tribute image. Should her given name be made public, I will rectify it accordingly.

 

VALCIN, you deserve to be repeatedly slammed against the bars of your cell and “If you f---ing die, oh well.”

 

Disclaimer: This story is sourced from official documents provided to Voice For Us by Miami Police.

 





 
 
 

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