[MAIL] A Florida man was arrested for strangling a 16-year-old dog, bundling her into a trash bag and leaving her in a dumpster to die, police said.Anthony Bellman, 55, was seen on surveillance camera tossing a black garbage bag into a dumpster behind the Lehigh Acres Family Dollar on Bell Boulevard. He got into a blue SUV and sped off.
'We are one team that comes together to be a voice for the innocent, such as Xyla,' Lee County Sheriff Carmine Marceno said Monday. 'We will never stop holding individuals accountable for these heinous actions here in this county.'
On December 14, an employee found the bag and discovered the mostly blind Shih Tzu inside. Xyla had a rope around her neck when found.
Police said Bellman had tried to strangle the dog and snap her neck with a belt instead of taking her to be euthanized.