Pasco Deputy Arrested After Stomping A Cat To Death
According to the Tampa Police Department, they arrested a Pasco Deputy for Animal Cruelty on Wednesday. Reports tell us that Eric Harris had an argument with his girlfriend on August 21st about issues he had with her cats. Harris was upset about the cats using the bathroom outside of their litter box and jumping on the furniture.Police say when The girlfriend came home on August 22nd she found her cat in his crate with bloody and broken toenails. The cat was also acting in a crazy manner and was unable to stand using its rear legs.
The girlfriend took the cat to a Vet who referred her to an animal hospital for serious treatment. Sadly the cat died the same day.The doctor ended up calling the police because of the cats severe injuries.Officers say the Pasco Deputy denied any wrongdoing and said the cat was fine when he was with him. Several days later a necropsy found that the cat suffered hemorrhaging, bruising to organs and facial injuries. The cat had markings that showed he had been stomped on. They ruled his death as blunt force trauma. On Wednesday, Harris was arrested by Tampa police in his home. He faces one charge of felony and animal cruelty.
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Which Florida City Made The List With Highest Murder Rates In U.S.
There’s lots to love about the Sunshine State, but we’re also notorious for the craziest crimes. One Florida city even ranked in the top 15 for highest murder rates in America. It’s not really a list we love to see Florida on, but we can’t say we’re not surprised with all the insane stuff that happens here.
Our friends at neighboorhoodscout.com ranked the top 30 cities in the country with the highest murder rates per 1,000 residents. They condensed their research by including cities with 25,000 or more people. They collected their data by the number of murders reported to the FBI to have occurred in each city, and the population of each city. The city population data comes straight from the US Bureau of the Census at the time of each analysis. For instance, the 2022 list population uses 2020 population figures. The 2021 list uses 2019 figures, and so forth.
There were 14 new cities making the list this year. “The newcomer on this list with the highest murder rate is Saginaw, MI. The number of murders in Saginaw more than doubled from the previous year.” Thankfully (and surprisingly) only one Florida city was ranked in the research.
Here’s the top 15 cities with the highest murder rate. Click here to see the full list.
Shandra “Babs” Littleton is a member of the WiLD Squad. She’s originally from Detroit but has spent most of her “grown-up” life in Fort Myers, Florida where she graduated from Florida Gulf Coast University. Babs loves to write about everything from Tampa concerts, to WiLD murders that happened in Florida, and her favorite businesses.