The owner of an Antioch dog training company was sentenced to two years in state prison last week for four counts of animal cruelty, the Contra Costa County District Attorney’s Office announced Monday.
Contra Costa County Superior Court Judge Patricia Scanlon delivered the sentence Friday to NorCal K9 owner Garry Reynolds, 39, who was convicted in March on the felony charges of neglect and unsuitable living conditions for four dogs left in his care.
Antioch city officials began investigating Reynolds in 2018 after police received a report that a Doberman named Gunnar had died at a property Reynolds was renting.
Officers then searched a house at 5200 Lone Tree Way, where the dogs were located, and found rotten raw chicken meat in several dogs’ kennels, urine and feces around the house and improper use of the house’s ventilation system despite extremely warm weather in Antioch at the time.
Several dogs were also kept in small rooms or stacked kennels in the house’s kitchen. Garbage littered the inside and outside of the house as well. In total, nine dogs were removed from the property. Two dogs had to be
euthanized due to their injuries, according to the district attorney’s office.
“I am satisfied the defendant will serve time in state prison due to his extreme negligence and disregard for the animals under his company’s care,” said Deputy District Attorney Arsh Singh, who prosecuted the case.
“This case should serve as a wakeup call for any dog training company in our community. Animals deserve to be protected and treated well,” Singh said.
Reynolds’ former co-defendant in the case, Devon Ashby, took a misdemeanor animal cruelty plea deal in the case and would ultimately testify for the prosecution.
This is major animal cruelty.
On a side note:
Why are people using animals for their graffiti.
Bothered me to see that painted horse in the recent protest march in Martinez. And in extreme heat.
And another local organization has a graffiti filled gentle horse on the cover of their Facebook page.
What gives?
“Two dogs had to be euthanized due to their injuries, according to the district attorney’s office.”
Enjoy your cell time, ahole.
He won’t do too well in prison. Even criminals have standards when it comes to children, old ladies and dogs.
Put him in the same conditions.
I’m sure Hizzoner Newsom has already released him.
I’m wondering if there’s any room for this POS at San Quentin….
Finally! I’m glad to see animal cruelty taken seriously and punished. I wish he could be punished in the same manner, circumstances and duration that those animals had to suffer.
I agree i think you have to be really twisted in your head to treat animals like that. Hopefully he never has children. And just maybe that POS get what he has coming in SQ. Im so happy that the system is finally recognizing that these animals have a soul and spirit. They feel pain, abandament, fear lonliness, etc.
https://www.facebook.com/ConcordPolice/posts/yesterday-a-concerned-community-member-called-the-concord-police-department-repo/1791455537622514/
Funny, a judge decided this was only misdemeanor animal cruelty.
If he was sentenced to two years, he was convicted of a felony. It was the co-defendant who pleaded to the misdemeanor charge.
He deserves punishment for his inexcusable animal cruelty behaviors. It breaks my heart to see these types of abuse against defenseless animals.
Boil him. Then feed him to the dogs.🐾.Animals are better than most people!.
He deserved way more than he got BUT it’s a start!! I remember a time not to long ago when he wouldn’t have even been arrested. We must unite and demand stricter laws for animal cruelty!! We live in a harsh world and animals do not deserve to be hurt!! They only want to love!! Hopefully in the future scum like this will go away for life!!! Karma will hopefully take of this POS!!!!