BIG PINE KEY, Fla. – A 28-year-old Sunrise man is going through more than one fees in the Florida Keys after deputies mentioned he threatened to kill and battered 3 ladies and closed a dog in a suitcase.
Deputies arrested Steven Vincent Maltese on an arrest warrant Friday in reference to the incident, which government mentioned came about Monday on Big Pine Key.
According to the Monroe County Sheriff’s Office, deputies replied to a house in the 31000 block of Avenue C after the ladies reported that Maltese “threatened to kill them, choked one of them, pushed them and threw a coffee mug at them.”
He additionally “placed a dog in a suitcase with a cloth tie wrapped around its neck and closed the suitcase” and left earlier than deputies arrived, MCSO spokesperson Adam Linhardt mentioned.
While the dog wasn’t severely harm, one of the ladies needed to be taken to Fisherman’s Hospital in Marathon for remedy, Linhardt mentioned.
Maltese is going through a prison battery fee, at the side of misdemeanor battery, easy attack and animal cruelty fees.
He was once no longer indexed in Monroe County’s prison roster as of Friday afternoon.
Jail information display he’s scheduled to be arraigned on Thursday.
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