ESCAMBIA COUNTY, Fla. (WALA) – The Escambia County Sheriff’s Office today arrested a 60-year-old Pensacola man on animal cruelty charges after officials say he abandoned two dogs.
Bryan Wayne Mott was booked into the Escambia County Jail this morning and was released this afternoon on a $1,000 bond, jail records show.
The incident happened Jan. 21 when a deputy saw a red Chevy Silverado pickup truck traveling on Becks Lake Road with two dogs in the bed of the truck. A short time later, the same truck passed the deputy again, but the dogs were gone, according to the sheriff’s office.
Within minutes, a resident flagged down the deputy and reported that someone in a red pickup truck had dumped two dogs and taken off, the sheriff’s office said. The deputy found the dogs on a dead-end portion of Becks Lake Road and put them in his vehicle, the sheriff’s office said…