Crime & Safety

Madison Police Officer Aids In Dog Killing Investigation

Officer's work leads to arrest of Branford man on charges related to strangulation of his dog in January. Body dumped in Madison and discovered in March.

 

This information was provided by the Branford Police Department:

Branford Police officers along with a State Animal Control Officer arrested Alex Wullaert, 24, of 57 East Main Street, Branford on charges of animal cruelty in connection with the killing of his pit-bull, boxer mixed-breed dog in January of this year.

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State Animal Control Officer Todd Curry, who works for the State of Connecticut Department of Agriculture, said that the case originated on March 11, 2012 in Madison when a resident located a deceased dog discarded in a plastic bag in the woods by a lake and reported it to Madison Police.

Madison Police Officer Kimberly Lauria, who investigated the incident, was able to determine that Wullaert was the owner of the deceased animal due to an identifiable micro-chip that was recovered during a necropsy. Officer Curry said, “that through her further diligent investigation, Officer Lauria was able to contact and later interview Wullaert, who confessed that he choked the animal at his Branford home after it urinated on his leg and bit him.” Once the animal was deceased, Wullaert placed it in a plastic bag and discarded it in Madison.

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“The local officer did an excellent job,” said Curry.

Wullaert was charged with cruelty to animals and littering. He was released on a Written Promise to Appear in New Haven Court on May 15, 2012 at 9:00 a.m.


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