Police: 2 arrested for repeatedly leaving cat in hot car outside Milton Big Lots

MILTON, Fla. — A couple in Santa Rosa County is charged with animal cruelty.

Freya Bergeron, 48, and James Bergeron, 64, were both arrested Thursday afternoon on misdemeanor charges of:

  • animal cruelty – impound confine animal without sufficient food/water
  • animal conservation – tormenting, depriving, mutilating, or killing

Milton Police tell WEAR News the couple had been leaving a cat in a car in the Big Lots parking lot on Highway 90.

An employee says the couple would repeatedly park the car early in the morning and return late in the evening…

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