A Las Vegas man was arrested Tuesday after the death of a puppy found hanging on a fence.
Las Vegas police said they were called to an apartment complex on block 3600 on Boulder Highway at 1:34 p.m. because of the death of a dog. Upon arrival, they found the dead dog and arrested its owner Tobenna Okobi, 40, from Las Vegas.
An arrest report for Okobi said a Clark County animal rights officer told police a man “hung his dog and the dog was not breathing.”
“The puppy was hanging on a fence on the southeast side of the complex next to the main office,” police said, adding that the animal control officer tried to arrest Okobi but he left.
The officers then located Okobi and took him into custody.
Okobi denied tying his dog to the fence, but the surveillance video told a different story.
“Video footage from the apartment complex shows Tobenna walking to the front of the complex at around 3am this morning,” police said. “A few minutes later you can see him walking back to the back of the complex without his dog.”
Police said Okobi left his dog unattended for hours without food or water in 113-degree weather.
Okobi was admitted to the Clark County Detention Center on suspicion of the malicious torture and killing of an animal and was due to appear before the Las Vegas Justice Court for the first time on Wednesday.
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