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A houseguest from hell strangled his host’s English Bulldog then gruesomely scattered the dismembered pooch’s remains in dumpsters across Westchester County, local prosecutors said.
Benjamin Tyler, 39, was busted for the disturbing crime but quickly set free because the aggravated cruelty to animal charge wasn’t bail eligible under state law, according to the Westchetser district attorney’s office.
Tyler, 39, of New Milford, Connecticut, was staying with a 41-year-old man inside a Huguenot Street apartment in New Rochelle when he allegedly snatched up the purebred pooch named Bruno the morning of Dec. 6, according to cops and prosecutors.
Tyler allegedly strangled Bruno and then dismembered him in “an especially depraved manner,” severing all four limbs, according to a complaint filed in City Court of New Rochelle.
Bruno’s torso was found inside a 5-gallon orange bucket, stuffed into a dumpster on Second Street in New Rochelle, prosecutors claimed.
His head and two legs were separately found inside a brown Zara cardboard box, left in another dumpster on Union Avenue, according to the complaint.
A doctor at Westchester Animal Hospital determined that Bruno was strangled to death due to the tiny spots visible in his eyes, indicating broken blood vessels, the DA’s office said.
Surveillance video from the apartment building shows Tyler leaving the apartment holding both the orange bucket and the cardboard box, according to prosecutors.
New Rochelle Police Detectives and ASPCA officers immediately launched an investigation, and obtained an arrest warrant for Tyler, cops said.
Tyler turned himself in to police on Monday and was charged with the sickening crime, authorities said.
He was arraigned that same day in New Rochelle City Court before Judge Jared Rice, who released him on his own recognizance.
Another alleged animal killer, Alberto Morris, 33, was granted supervised release by a Brooklyn judge last month after he allegedly threw his pal’s beloved pit bull to its death from a 14th-floor balcony.
Aggravated cruelty to animals, a felony, carries a two-year maximum jail sentence in the state of New York.
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