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- Connecticut, USA -


The Cheshire Police Department arrested 23-years-old PHILIP J. LIN (pictured), for violating terms of his release stemming from an animal cruelty investigation.


To understand the violation of the conditions of LIN’s release we need to go back to October 2021, when Cheshire police responded to LIN’s mother’s home on Edith Place after receiving a tip that LIN might be running a puppy mill.


During the course of the months-long investigation, police discovered on the property the bodies of two deceased dogs, Blue and Bo Bo.


Blue, a 7-year-old Maltese, was found in a plastic bag buried in a shallow grave marked by a large rock near the driveway.

During an interview with police, LIN said he had been bathing Blue. When the dog acted out, he hit the furbaby in the nose. LIN also told police that he then left, leaving Blue inside the bathtub full of water and when he went back after a few minutes, Blue had drowned.


As for Bo Bo, LIN told officers that he had been walking the furbaby on a leash and, when he was trying to go inside, Bo Bo kept pulling to stay outside. LIN said he “pulled the leash too tight,” snapping Bo Bo's neck. Bo Bo's remains were sent to the University of Connecticut's Department of Pathobiology for a necropsy. The report came back stating that Bo Bo was in an advanced state of decomposition and analysts did not collect tissues for examination.


At LIN’s mother’s home, officials also found more than twenty dogs whom police said were in good condition.

LIN’s mother, 46-years-old ALISON YI GU a.k.a. ALISON LING and ALSION YI LING, told police that she was rescuing dogs from Asia and showed health certificates for five dogs. According to the affidavit obtained by Voice For Us, Cheshire Animal Control Officer April Leiler noted that the paperwork was in a different language, so she was not able to determine the dogs’ breeds or where they came from.


LIN was arrested on September 27, 2022, on two felony counts of animal cruelty.

Before being released from custody, Judge Thomas V. Okeefe Jr. prohibited the filthy murderer from being inside his mother’s home unsupervised with any animals.

LIN, however, ignored the terms of his release and a few weeks ago, he was found at his mother’s house during her absence with dogs present on the property.


On October 5, 2022, LIN’s mother was arrested for violating her federal probation so police told LIN he had to leave the home per court conditions and LIN’s mother hired a woman to take care of her twenty-eight dogs.

When LIN’s mother was released the following day, she went to the home to feed the dogs and found a small white Shih Tzu named Coco in the basement with a plastic feeding bucket stuck on her head. The woman realized that her son had been alone in the home overnight.

Fire personnel had to cut off the bucket to free Coco.

As LIN’s mother was bathing the furbaby, she noticed someone had recently shaved her private parts which at that point were “red, bruised, and swollen.”

Police went back to the home again that day and officers found clumps of animal hair, which matched Coco's hair, on top of a dryer in the laundry room as well as a blue disposable razor in a mop bucket containing fecal matter.


Police then questioned LIN about Coco but he denied any knowledge about the incident and said he was sleeping in his basement bedroom.


On October 21, 2022, LIN was charged with a first-degree violation of the conditions of his release. Despite everything, the murderer was not held in jail but was released.

According to online court records, LIN is scheduled to appear for this case in state Superior Court in Meriden on November 15, 2022, at 10:00 a.m.


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- Connecticut, USA -


On October 19, 2022, the Winchester Police Department arrested 30-years-old MARISSA O’BRIEN, 53-years-old LAURA THOMEN, and 61-years-old JAMES THOMEN SR. after nearly two hundred cats were found at a Winsted home.


In a news release police said that it all started on June 13, 2022, when the Department received an anonymous call about a sick cat at a home on 143 Moore Avenue in Winsted.


A further investigation led animal control to respond to the scene as well. Officers noticed a strong odor of urine emanating from the property and numerous cats inside.


CBS News reports that Winchester Town Manager Josh Kelly, who helped organize the rescue of the hoarded animals, said on Facebook that a total of 189 cats, two dogs, and one ferret were removed from the home.


Winchester Police Department Chief William T. Fitzgerald Jr. told NBC News: “You couldn’t even see the floor — it was full of cats.” Chief Fitzgerald said many of the cats were sick and had eye infections and fleas.

Chief Fitzgerald explained that the family began collecting the cats because LAURA THOMEN wanted to bring them in from the cold and feed them. “It probably started out as a good idea — humanitarian type of thing — but it obviously got out of hand,” he said.


The cats were taken to the Batcheller School, which was just decommissioned and was vacant. At the school, volunteers helped clean the furbabies and veterinarians examined them.

They cats were later moved to shelters across the state and placed for adoption.

NBC Connecticut reports that sadly, one cat had to be euthanized.


Inside the home, officers also found eight people. Three of them were the aforementioned arrestees. A 6-year-old girl and a 10-year-old boy were also occupying the residence and the other three occupants were not mentioned in the news release.

Police said the two children were removed and placed with relatives.


Following an extensive investigation, Winchester Police obtained arrest warrants for MARISSA O’BRIEN, LAURA THOMEN, and JAMES THOMEN SR., and an additional warrant is pending for another individual, said police.


The arrestees are each charged each with 106 counts of cruelty of animal and 2 counts risk of injury to a minor.

The trio are scheduled to be arranged at Torrington Superior Court on November 1, 2022.


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- Connecticut, USA -


On Tuesday, October 4, 2022, the South Windsor Police Department arrested 40-years-old DAMIEN IVON ADDINGTON (pictured), on an active arrest warrant.


In a news release police said that ADDINGTON’s charges stem from an investigation conducted on August 9, 2022, when officers responded to a residence on Main Street for an unrelated unwanted person’s complaint.


According to police, during the course of the investigation, a 2-year-old Pitbull was found improperly tethered to a tree in the backyard of the property. Windsor Police tells me that the furbaby is a male named Kane and kindly provided me with his picture.

Kane was also found without food or water.


A SWPD Community Service Officer took Kane to the Tyler Regional Animal Care Center for safekeeping.


An arrest warrant was sought for Kane’s guardian, ADDINGTON, who was then taken into custody at GA 19 in Rockville.

ADDINGTON was later released on a $5,000 non-surety bond. He is scheduled to appear in Manchester Superior Court on Wednesday, October 19, 2022, at 09:00 a.m.


I have just checked the Tyler Regional Animal Care Center’s Facebook page and learned that Kane is available for adoption. So, if you are interested, you can call Windsor Police Animal Control at (860) - 648 - 6239. Thank you!


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