Guilty plea entered in dog’s drowning
Monday, May 18, 1998 | 9:50 a.m.
A Las Vegas man has pleaded guilty to charges that after a tiff with his live-in girlfriend he drowned her Chihuahua in a toilet.
Bobby Alexander Williams on Friday was given a four-month jail sentence but it was suspended in favor of probation. He also was ordered by Justice of the Peace Nancy Oesterle to attend impulse control counseling and pay a $400 fine and a $400 donation to the Las Vegas Animal Foundation.
The downtown casino employee had pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge of torturing an animal in a plea bargain that Deputy District Attorney Lucinda Hamill termed a "reasonable resolution of the case."
The dog's body had been dumped on the doorstep of the home of a relative where the woman was staying on March 8.
Williams had faced a gross misdemeanor charge of killing another person's animal, but accepted the plea bargain to resolve the case and avoid a potentially harsher penalty that could have included up to a year in jail.
A Metro Police report indicates Williams and Lorraine Conner lived together at 1116 Palmer St., near Owens Avenue and Pecos Road, but had a fight and the woman went to the home of Nicole Conner to spend the night.
About 3:30 a.m., Williams telephoned Nicole Conner and told her to tell his girlfriend, "I need to know what she wants done with her dead dog," the police report indicated.
Lorraine Conner took the phone and was told by Williams that he had drowned her dog in the toilet, the charges allege.
He then is alleged to have driven to Nicole Conner's home several miles away and left the dog's body on the walkway.
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