An Orange County man who police imagine killed greater than a dozen neighborhood cats after luring them to his property was arrested Wednesday, in line with authorities.
Over a number of weeks, the Santa Ana Police Division has acquired a number of stories of suspected animal abuse and lacking cats.
Alejandro Oliveros Acosta, 45, of Santa Ana was arrested Wednesday and booked on the Santa Ana Metropolis Jail on felony costs associated to animal cruelty, authorities mentioned.
Yessenia Aspeitia, a media relations coordinator for the Santa Ana Police Division, mentioned officers couldn’t present the precise variety of cats the suspect is believed to have harmed, however it’s over a dozen.
Authorities allege Acosta was positively recognized by a number of victims and witnesses as the person who lured their cats away from their houses.
Officers from the Santa Ana and Westminster police departments, together with Santa Ana’s Animal Management Division, searched Acosta’s residence within the 2300 block of West Wilshire Avenue on Wednesday morning and took him into custody. Aspeitia mentioned the division couldn’t present any further details about proof collected from the house.
Investigators are presently assembling a timeline of the alleged incidents, Aspeitia mentioned. Officers are combing native social media teams for accounts of stolen or lacking cats to include alongside formal stories made to the division over the course of a number of weeks.
Native cat house owners in current weeks have shared photographs on social media of their lacking cats and residential safety footage exhibiting a person luring them away from their houses.
Amongst them was Eva Corlew of Westminster, who posted that her 10-month-old Bengal Lynx cat, Clubber, was stolen from her driveway in March. Clubber was ultimately reunited with Corlew, in line with the Westminster Police Division.
Aspeitia confirmed Acosta is being investigated concerning Clubber’s abduction.
Anybody with data concerning this case is requested to contact Police Investigative Specialist S. Guzman at (714) 245-8416 or SGuzman@santa-ana.org.
