BROWARD COUNTY, Fla. – A person is dealing with a couple of criminal fees, together with animal cruelty, after tribal police mentioned he grabbed a small dog via its paws and neck and threatened to throw it off a parking storage at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Hollywood, then threw it into a suite of bushes.
According to courtroom paperwork bought on Tuesday, Seminole police encountered Nicholas Michael-Jamaal Depass, 26, of Sunrise, at the 3rd flooring of the Seminole Way storage after being known as there for a “possible fight” and a person threatening to throw a dog off a ledge early Friday morning.
Police mentioned they noticed Depass status at the ledge with the dog, however claimed he had “no intention” of injuring it.
Surveillance video later confirmed Depass retaining the dog via its entrance paws and neck, in line with an arrest file.
A safety officer trespassed Depass, however police mentioned he went to the fourth flooring “and was again told to leave.”
Rather than go away, Depass “threw the dog into the bushes” and walked in opposition to a valet, police mentioned.
The file doesn’t state whether or not Depass threw the dog off the parking storage or whilst at floor degree; it additionally doesn’t state whether or not the dog was once critically harm or killed.
It states that the officer who witnessed Depass throw the dog moved to arrest him.
Police mentioned Depass resisted arrest and grabbed the officer’s Taser and backup officials needed to assist subdue and handcuff him.
The arrest file states {that a} seek of Depass’ backpack published a stolen Glock pistol, a marijuana grinder, plus a scale and tray.
Authorities arrested him on criminal fees of animal cruelty inflicting dying or ache, grand robbery of a firearm and resisting arrest with violence.
He additionally faces 4 misdemeanor drug and trespassing fees.
He was once being held within the Broward Main Jail on a bond of greater than $64,000 as of Tuesday afternoon, in line with prison data.
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