No Justice: Couple Throw Zip Tied Dog, They Just Adopted, Into Irrigation Canal For Killing Some Chickens

[Sugar Cookie]

A St. Paul woman stands convicted of animal cruelty in a case were a dog’s legs were zip-tied and the dog thrown into an irrigation canal.

Sadie Miller, 29, pled no contest to misdemeanor abandonment and cruel neglect of an animal. She had originally been charged with felony cruelty to an animal but that charge was reduced in a plea bargain.

According to court records, Miller’s boyfriend, 27-year-old Joshua Balcom of St. Paul zip-tied a black lab’s legs together and then threw the dog into an irrigation ditch near Cushing. The dog was found drowned to death July 16, 2024, about a mile downstream.

An affidavit indicates Balcom and Miller got the dog about a week before. Miller told a sheriff’s deputy that the dog killed some chickens, so she and Balcom killed the dog.

Balcom was originally charged with felony animal cruelty resulting in death. Prosecutors reduced the charge to misdemeanor animal neglect. Balcom pled guilty to the lesser charge and will be sentenced April 9.

St. Paul woman convicted in dog’s drowning death

A St. Paul woman stands convicted of animal cruelty in a case were a dog’s legs were zip tied and the dog thrown into an irrigation canal.

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[Sugar Cookie]

Court records show 28-year-old Joshua Balcom was sentenced Wednesday to 90 days in jail and two years probation for misdemeanor animal neglect.

Court records indicate Balcom zip-tied a black lab’s legs together and then threw the dog into an irrigation ditch near Cushing. The dog was found drowned to death July 16, 2024, about a mile downstream.

An affidavit says that Balcom and his girlfriend got the dog July 7. The girlfriend, Sadie Miller, 29, told a sheriff’s deputy that the dog killed some chickens, so she and Balcom killed the dog.

Balcom was originally charged with felony animal cruelty resulting in death. Prosecutors reduced the charge to misdemeanor animal neglect. Balcom pled guilty in January to the lesser charge.

Miller was sentenced to two years probation for abandonment and cruel neglect of an animal.

St. Paul man sentenced for drowning death of dog

A St. Paul man convicted of drowning his dog is going to jail.

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[Rebooto]

The sentence is much too lenient. Dogs do what nature tells them to do. Our Dachshund once killed the only rooster in a chicken coop and we gave the owner some money to buy a new rooster instead of torturing our little dog to death.

 

[runninfawn]

it would have been so simple to return this poor dog where they adopted him and letting them know why the dog was returned so it could be trained if not at least be known to future owners (i don't like that name as you don't own a living being, they are either members of your family be them "working" members or as pampered pets or humainly raised for food ) his habits and that it shouldn't be adopted on a farm, etc so that this fur baby could go to it's furever home