{"id":32567,"date":"2014-08-26T12:50:21","date_gmt":"2014-08-26T16:50:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=32567"},"modified":"2014-08-26T12:50:21","modified_gmt":"2014-08-26T16:50:21","slug":"teen-sentenced-to-ten-years-in-prison-for-killing-family-dog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2014\/08\/teen-sentenced-to-ten-years-in-prison-for-killing-family-dog\/","title":{"rendered":"Teen Sentenced To Ten Years in Prison For Killing Family Dog"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_32568\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-32568\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-32568\" title=\"Carley\" src=\"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Carley-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Carley-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Carley.jpg 467w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-32568\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Contributed family photo via nbc-2 news<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A Lee County judge sentence Ronnie Sheppard Jr. on Monday to ten years in prison for shooting a family&#8217;s dog and burglary of two homes in Lehigh Acres, as reported\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbc-2.com\/story\/23969854\/lehigh-acres-home-invasion-burglary-crime-spree#.U_x-NWO8nO2\" target=\"_blank\">nbc2.com.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sheppard and an accomplice, both from Fort Meyers, began their crime spree in November when they tried to break into a home, but the owners were home, and the men fled. They stole a car and later crashed it. At the second home, neighbors heard gunshot sounds and witnessed the men running away with a television.<\/p>\n<p>When deputies arrived at the burglarized home on Manuel Street, they found the family dog shot and killed.<\/p>\n<p>According to\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbc-2.com\/story\/26367808\/teen-gets-10-years-prison-for-burglary-dog-slaying#.U_yAOWO8nO2\" target=\"_blank\">nbc2.com,<\/a>\u00a0the owners of the dog named Carley, made an emotional statement to the judge before Sheppard&#8217;s sentencing.<\/p>\n<p>Christian Aranda, 18, arrested in connection with this crime, is still in custody.<\/p>\n<p>Sheppard has been in trouble with the law since age 12.<\/p>\n<p>Rest in peace Carley.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Lee County judge sentence Ronnie Sheppard Jr. on Monday to ten years in prison for shooting a family&#8217;s dog and burglary of two homes in Lehigh Acres, as reported\u00a0nbc2.com.&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\/32567"}],"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=32567"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32567\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}