Officials are seeking the public’s help in finding a woman seen on surveillance video leaving a bag containing seven puppies behind Napa Auto Parts in Coachella on Thursday.
Video shows a woman pull up in a Jeep next to a trash bin outside the store on Grapefruit Blvd. about 1 pm, officials told the Desert Sun. The woman gets out of the vehicle with a plastic bag and proceeds to drop it into a recycling dumpster.
(Part 2): we are investigating a case of suspected felony animal cruelty in Coachella. Woman tossed bag of pups in Dumpster. #RivCoNow pic.twitter.com/Xd9ePVbZix
— RivCO animalSERVICES (@helpinRIVcoPETS) April 20, 2019
A passerby saw what happened and told a store employee, who called the Riverside County Department of Animal Services.
Do you recognize this woman? She was caught on camera throwing 7 puppies in the trash in Coachella Thursday afternoon.
FULL STORY: https://t.co/J3DHUITy2h pic.twitter.com/lzclOeeIlU
— KESQ News Channel 3 (@KESQ) April 20, 2019
The puppies, believed to be terrier mix and only three days old, were brought to a Riverside County animal campus to be cared for.
A woman tossed these pups in a Dumpster in Coachella. News release posted on our Facebook pages. Pups OK. In foster care #RivCoNow pic.twitter.com/Jn2OMBSOZj
— RivCO animalSERVICES (@helpinRIVcoPETS) April 20, 2019
The woman is being sought on suspicion of animal cruelty.
Anyone with information should call Riverside County Animal Services at (951) 358-7387.
