A Florida man was charged with animal cruelty after being caught on camera allegedly slamming a 1-year-old puppy onto a concrete floor.
Osceola County police arrested Marco Zuluaga, 28, on Dec. 27 after being alerted to an “animal complaint” at an apartment complex in Kissimmee, Florida. According to the arrest warrant , the apartment management turned over surveillance video from the day before that showed a man identified as Zuluaga carrying a small dog . A noise can be heard off-camera “consistent with someone slamming something against a hard surface.” Zuluaga then comes back into the frame with the dog and violently throws her “in a pitcher motion” down onto the concrete floor outside the apartment. The dog can be heard yelping in pain and then running away.
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Osceola County Sheriff Marcos Lopez held a press conference on Dec. 30 to announce the arrest and provide an update on the case. He stated that the reason Zuluaga attacked the dog was because she had an accident on the carpet inside. Lopez also stated that while off-camera, Zuluaga slammed the dog against the balcony railing and “contemplat[ed] throwing her from the third floor.”