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Police chief facing charges for shooting cats
http://www.startribune.com/462/story/992361.html
WEST CONCORD, Minn. — The mayor of this southern Minnesota town is defending the police chief after criminal charges that he killed cats, including using a rifle to shoot out of a moving vehicle while trying to kill one stray. Chief Robert Utech is charged in Dodge County District Court with felony mistreatment of animals and a gross misdemeanor charge of misconduct by a public official. He's on paid administrative leave. But at a raucous town meeting Thursday night, Mayor Burt Boe called the charges "trumped up'' and said that even if Utech did shoot cats — which Boe insists he didn't — it was because of complaints that stray cats are overrunning the city. "These cats have pretty (much) cleaned out all the song birds in this town,'' Boe said. "And because there are so many of them, they're hard to catch. They're hard to catch. You got to really work at it.'' The criminal complaint charges Utech with shooting the cats and dumping their remains near a grain elevator in town. In the complaint, Tom Sendecky, a former part-time West Concord police officer, contends that he was once driving a squad car while Utech, seated in the passenger seat, was pointing a rifle out the window and shooting at a cat. Utech then allegedly got out of the squad car and shot at the cat as he chased it down Main Street, the complaint said. Utech has not yet entered a plea to the charges. He could not immediately be reached for comment Friday. His attorney, Tony Spector, told The Associated Press he had no comment on the charges. The Dodge County Sheriff's Office launched the investigation after a West Concord resident reported that six of his cats had been shot, and he suspected Utech was involved. The case has since been turned over to the Olmsted County Sheriff's Office. At the Thursday night meeting, resident Carl Martin defended Utech as a kind-hearted animal lover who has nine cats of his own. Martin also said the allegations are hard to believe because Utech is known around town as a bad shot. "I doubt Bob could hit the cat,'' he said. But some residents expressed concern that the case was making West Concord, in the words of one meeting attendee, the "laughingstock of southern Minnesota.'' The city of 850 residents is about 30 miles west of Rochester. "I got friends two hours away calling and mentioning about the city of West Concord,'' resident Scott Greenwood said. "They make this town look like a bunch of hillbillies.'' (End of story) Well DUH! When people act like this, they are worse than hillbillies! This makes me so angry. On the local news, it was reported that this cat murderer had *bragged* to three people about what he had done saying 'I hate cats; it's what I do' (or words to that effect). And this cat murderer is on *PAID administrative leave!!!* And his equally degenerate (IMHO) buddy the Mayor is actually supporting this degenerate cat murderer. On the TV news story about this, one of the town residents had several of her cats go missing, and she somehow knew someone was shooting them, but although she repeatedly reported it to the Chief of Police NOTHING WAS EVER DONE. This guy should be locked up for years for what he has done. From seeing the news story on TV, it sounded like the cats were all pets, NOT feral cats, as the lame cover-up claims. The only thing I can do is ask for purrs for those poor kitties, and their devastated humans, who are just now learning what happened to their missing fur babies. ~~~~~~~~~~~~ "Life without cats would be only marginally worth living." -TC, and the unmercifully, relentlessly, sweet calico kitty, Kenzie. How you behave towards cats here below determines your status in Heaven. - Robert Heinlein Life is very difficult. Once you understand that, life becomes easier. -Buddha It would go a long way towards cheering me up if I heard a new report that this cat murderer's body was found dumped by a grain elevator.... |
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Police chief facing charges for shooting cats
"Gandalf" wrote in message ... http://www.startribune.com/462/story/992361.html WEST CONCORD, Minn. - The mayor of this southern Minnesota town is defending the police chief after criminal charges that he killed cats, including using a rifle to shoot out of a moving vehicle while trying to kill one stray. Chief Robert Utech is charged in Dodge County District Court with felony mistreatment of animals and a gross misdemeanor charge of misconduct by a public official. He's on paid administrative leave. But at a raucous town meeting Thursday night, Mayor Burt Boe called the charges "trumped up'' and said that even if Utech did shoot cats - which Boe insists he didn't - it was because of complaints that stray cats are overrunning the city. "These cats have pretty (much) cleaned out all the song birds in this town,'' Boe said. "And because there are so many of them, they're hard to catch. They're hard to catch. You got to really work at it.'' The criminal complaint charges Utech with shooting the cats and dumping their remains near a grain elevator in town. In the complaint, Tom Sendecky, a former part-time West Concord police officer, contends that he was once driving a squad car while Utech, seated in the passenger seat, was pointing a rifle out the window and shooting at a cat. Utech then allegedly got out of the squad car and shot at the cat as he chased it down Main Street, the complaint said. Utech has not yet entered a plea to the charges. He could not immediately be reached for comment Friday. His attorney, Tony Spector, told The Associated Press he had no comment on the charges. The Dodge County Sheriff's Office launched the investigation after a West Concord resident reported that six of his cats had been shot, and he suspected Utech was involved. The case has since been turned over to the Olmsted County Sheriff's Office. At the Thursday night meeting, resident Carl Martin defended Utech as a kind-hearted animal lover who has nine cats of his own. Martin also said the allegations are hard to believe because Utech is known around town as a bad shot. "I doubt Bob could hit the cat,'' he said. But some residents expressed concern that the case was making West Concord, in the words of one meeting attendee, the "laughingstock of southern Minnesota.'' The city of 850 residents is about 30 miles west of Rochester. "I got friends two hours away calling and mentioning about the city of West Concord,'' resident Scott Greenwood said. "They make this town look like a bunch of hillbillies.'' (End of story) Well DUH! When people act like this, they are worse than hillbillies! This makes me so angry. On the local news, it was reported that this cat murderer had *bragged* to three people about what he had done saying 'I hate cats; it's what I do' (or words to that effect). And this cat murderer is on *PAID administrative leave!!!* And his equally degenerate (IMHO) buddy the Mayor is actually supporting this degenerate cat murderer. On the TV news story about this, one of the town residents had several of her cats go missing, and she somehow knew someone was shooting them, but although she repeatedly reported it to the Chief of Police NOTHING WAS EVER DONE. This guy should be locked up for years for what he has done. From seeing the news story on TV, it sounded like the cats were all pets, NOT feral cats, as the lame cover-up claims. The only thing I can do is ask for purrs for those poor kitties, and their devastated humans, who are just now learning what happened to their missing fur babies. That is so awful. I am a fairly mild person much of the time but if anyone tried to hurt either of my cats they would not know what hit them. Hurt my cats, feel my fury. Tweed |
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