A person from Pennsylvania has been charged with aggravated cruelty to animals after capturing after which grilling his canine on an open fireplace, in line with authorities.
Nikolay Lukyanchikov, 48, of Bucks County, was arrested on Friday morning at his house, The Philadelphia Inquirer reported. Together with the animal cruelty, he was additionally charged with discharging a firearm into an occupied construction, reckless endangerment and different expenses, in line with courtroom paperwork. It doesn’t seem that he employed a lawyer.
His bail was posted at $1 million and because of being unable to pay, he’s nonetheless in custody. The massive sum for bail was as a result of severity of the alleged cruelty, which represents a felony and is due to this fact thought-about to be a risk to his area people.
Police arrived at Lukyanchikov’s property a couple of minutes after 7 am after they obtained calls concerning an open fireplace in his entrance yard, in line with an affidavit.
Lukyanchikov was found sitting on a settee “extremely intoxicated” and never capable of discuss, the identical affidavit reported. He was burning a number of $100 payments inside a steel fireplace pit, during which Lukyanchikov had put a small animal, which had been severely burned.
When the fireplace was put out, the police established the animal was a small canine, which was believed to have been shot within the eye, in line with the affidavit.
The roommate of Lukyanchikov knowledgeable the police she had heard a gunshot from his room earlier within the day, and he had advised her that he had shot the canine along with his private 9mm Beretta hand gun and had stashed it outdoors.
Police positioned bullet holes in a bed room, alongside blood and different bodily fluids in the home’s hall. A gun matching the roommate’s description was additionally uncovered from the scene.