NAME: Jean Louis, 48
WHERE: Immokalee
CRIME: Went into the yard of Shelly Ann Pacheco and stabbed her 1yr old pit bull CHARLIE BROWN, completely unprovoked. Louis crossed the property, turned back around and came at the dog with a large hunting knife.
WHERE: Immokalee
CRIME: Went into the yard of Shelly Ann Pacheco and stabbed her 1yr old pit bull CHARLIE BROWN, completely unprovoked. Louis crossed the property, turned back around and came at the dog with a large hunting knife.
“He had his hand behind his back and he got closer and closer to us and he started swinging that knife at my dog,” Pacheco said.
An Immokalee woman has two days to come up with $600 to treat her wounded dog after a man was accused of stabbing him in an unprovoked attack early Wednesday. (WHY DOES THE OWNER HAVE TO PAY????)
Collier County sheriff’s deputies arrested Jean Louis, 48, of the 600 block of South Fifth Street in Immokalee Wednesday. He faces a misdemeanor animal cruelty charge.
“He just went wild,” said Shelly Ann Pacheco, 50, the dog’s owner, who was having a bonfire with friends at about 1 a.m. Wednesday morning when Louis came walking through her yard.
A path behind her property connects to another street and Louis often walked through, Pacheco said. A few friends along with Charlie Brown, the 1-year-old pit bull, gathered around the fire watched Louis pass through.
“My dog never barked or growled at him,” Pacheco said.
But for some reason, Louis crossed the property, turned back around and came at the dog with a large hunting knife, Pacheco said.
“He had his hand behind his back and he got closer and closer to us and he started swinging that knife at my dog,” Pacheco said.
Pacheco and a friend wrestled the knife away from Louis who fled the property.
Pacheco called deputies and then took Charlie Brown to the emergency clinic for a wound to the dog’s lip and side. A vet there said Charlie Brown’s injuries were not life-threatening but that stitches to both wounds would cost about $600.
Pacheco, who didn’t have the money, took Charlie Brown home instead.
“I couldn’t do anything,” she said.
Deputies tracked Louis down Wednesday morning and arrested him at 120 S. First St. When confronted by deputies, Louis claimed the dog attacked him but Louis did not have any wounds.
Pacheco said she was visited by officers with Domestic Animal Services on Thursday and told her dog’s wound needed stitches even though it appeared to be healing. She was told she has two days to have the procedure done or risk losing her dog (THIS MAKES NO SENSE AT ALL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WTF?????)
“I don’t know what to do,” she said. “I can maybe get $100 together.”
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