{"id":22769,"date":"2013-04-25T14:24:22","date_gmt":"2013-04-25T18:24:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=22769"},"modified":"2013-04-25T14:24:22","modified_gmt":"2013-04-25T18:24:22","slug":"suspect-sought-in-cat-shooting-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2013\/04\/suspect-sought-in-cat-shooting-case\/","title":{"rendered":"Suspect Sought <br>in Cat Shooting Case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-22770\" title=\"lcdas\" src=\"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/lcdas.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"160\" height=\"160\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/lcdas.jpg 160w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/lcdas-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 160px) 100vw, 160px\" \/>Lee County Domestic Animal Services is seeking information regarding the person or persons responsible for shooting a cat in the area of a Lehigh Acres Sweetbay store.\u00a0 The cat was observed dragging her hind legs.\u00a0 A veterinarian performed x-rays of the cat that showed she had a pellet lodged in her spine.\u00a0 Due to the extensiveness of this injury, the cat could not be saved and was humanely euthanized.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cObviously this was a deliberate intentional act of animal cruelty.\u00a0 Individuals found harming animals will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law,\u201d states Chief Glenn Johnson, LCDAS Operations Manager.\u00a0 Shooting animals is a felony punishable by up five years in jail and\/or a $10,000 fine.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Animal Services considers crimes of this nature to be particularly cruel and disturbing and will investigate any leads for ultimate prosecution.\u00a0 Anyone with information regarding animal abuse is asked to call Animal Services at 239-533-7387.\u00a0 To be eligible to receive a reward for information leading to the arrest of the person(s) responsible, contact Southwest Florida Crime Stoppers at 1-800-780-TIPS.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lee County Domestic Animal Services is seeking information regarding the person or persons responsible for shooting a cat in the area of a Lehigh Acres Sweetbay store.\u00a0 The cat was&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22769"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22769\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}