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Rico City to Build Animal Shelter
By MARIO MALDONADO
ARECIBO, Puerto Rico (AP) — The mayor of city where
contractors allegedly took pets from public housing
projects and hurled them off a bridge said it will build
its own shelter to hold captured animals.
Barceloneta Mayor Sol Luis Fontanez made the
announcement Thursday, one day after a Puerto Rican
judge charged the contractor's owner and two employees
with animal cruelty in the October massacre.
The mayor
said the "deplorable incident" prompted him to seek bids
for a shelter that will hold animals temporarily before
sending them to a larger shelter in the west-coast city
of Mayaguez. "Once the stray animal is captured, we will
shelter it for three days with medical attention from a
veterinarian here in Barceloneta," he said.Fontanez said the number of strays on streets of his
northern city has been growing because nobody has been
catching them since the start of the investigation. In
October, municipal officials and animal-control workers
took dogs and cats from three housing projects in
Barceloneta under a no-pet policy. Some 80 pets were
seized, and only a half-dozen survived the 50-foot fall
from the bridge.
Julio Diaz, the owner of Animal Control Solutions,
and workers Lucas Montano Rivera, 18, and Roberto
Rodriguez Ceballo, 28, face cruelty charges that carry
maximum prison terms of nine years. A $22.5 million
lawsuit against Animal Control Solutions and city
officials — including those who helped round up the
animals — has been filed on behalf of 16 Barceloneta
families whose dogs and cats were seized.
Fontanez,
named as a defendant in the civil suit, has said the
municipality was involved in rounding up pets at the
public housing projects but the city's responsibility
ended when Animal Control Solutions drove off with the
animals in their vans. Yeah, right!
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