A man is facing multiple animal cruelty charges after police say they discovered one dead dog and several severely malnourished dogs inside his South Boston apartment, authorities announced Sunday.
Lester James, 39, was arraigned last week in South Boston Municipal Court on seven counts of animal cruelty, according to the Suffolk District Attorney’s Office.
Boston officers responded to an apartment on Old Colony Avenue just before noon on Sept. 7 after James called 911 to report that one of his dogs had died inside its cage, the DA’s office said…