- Conviction
- Animal cruelty for fatally shooting a neighbor's dog; a separate count involved firing a gun with gross negligence.
- Date
- Plea 2026-04-09; sentenced 2026-05-07
Source-verified state registry
California animal-cruelty convictions
PawWatch Registry publishes final convictions supported by an official court, prosecutor, law-enforcement, or government registry source. Records are rechecked for corrections and removals.
125 verified recordsReview in progressLast reviewed 2026-09-08
Coverage transparency
What PawWatch Registry has reviewed
- Date range reviewed
- Record-level official sources reviewed; statewide 2015-present backfill incomplete
- Official sources checked
- 37
Official sources
- justice.gov
- ocdistrictattorney.gov
- justice.gov
- sacda.org
- da.venturacounty.gov
- danewscenter.com
- independent.com
- countyofmonterey.gov
- justice.gov
- justice.gov
- fresnoda.org
- da.lacounty.gov
- danewscenter.com
- cslb.ca.gov
- justice.gov
- da.santaclaracounty.gov
- countyofsb.org
- sfdistrictattorney.org
- countyofmonterey.gov
- rivcoda.org
- da.venturacounty.gov
- kerncounty.com
- vmb.ca.gov
- countyofmonterey.gov
- justice.gov
- buttecounty.net
- contracostaherald.com
- buttecounty.net
- justice.gov
- sdcda.org
- ocdistrictattorney.gov
- kerncounty.com
- southtahoenow.com
- sbcountyda.org
- kerncounty.com
- justice.gov
- buttecounty.ca.gov
Known gaps
- Statewide and major local official sources have not been reviewed for the complete 2015-present period.
- Conviction
- One misdemeanor animal-cruelty count involving a protected Cooper's hawk.
- Date
- Plea 2026-02-19; sentenced 2026-02-24
- Conviction
- Felony animal cruelty for abusing a pug.
- Date
- Plea 2016-09-19; sentenced 2016-10-26
- Conviction
- One felony count of animal cruelty for fatally beating his poodle.
- Date
- Plea 2015-03-19; sentenced 2015-05-12
- Conviction
- Conspiracy involving cockfighting / sponsoring roosters for animal fighting.
- Date
- Not stated (plea before sentencing)
- Conviction
- Conspiracy involving cockfighting / sponsoring roosters for animal fighting.
- Date
- Not stated (plea before sentencing)
- Conviction
- Conspiracy involving cockfighting / sponsoring roosters for animal fighting.
- Date
- Not stated (plea before sentencing)
- Conviction
- Penal Code 597(b) animal cruelty
- Date
- Not stated
- Conviction
- Two counts animal cruelty — killing a student's goat and pig
- Date
- Not stated
- Conviction
- Animal cruelty
- Date
- Not stated
- Conviction
- Animal cruelty
- Date
- Not stated
- Conviction
- Two counts animal cruelty — beating, stabbing and strangling dog
- Date
- Not stated
- Conviction
- Felony possession of fighting dogs; felony animal cruelty
- Date
- Not stated
- Conviction
- Animal cruelty
- Date
- Not stated
- Conviction
- Animal cruelty
- Date
- Not stated
- Conviction
- Felony possession of fighting dogs; felony animal cruelty
- Date
- Not stated
- Conviction
- Animal cruelty
- Date
- Not stated
- Conviction
- One count of animal cruelty under Penal Code §597(a); separate conviction for harming/interfering with a law-enforcement dog and other non-animal offenses.
- Date
- Jury verdict 2019-02-05; appellate decision 2020-07-09
- Conviction
- One felony count of Penal Code §597(b), animal cruelty, involving harm to a dog.
- Date
- Early November 2017; reported 2017-11-08
- Conviction
- One felony count of Penal Code §597(a), animal cruelty, for killing an opossum.
- Date
- By 2019-08-01; exact plea date not stated
- Conviction
- Animal-cruelty / cockfighting conviction arising from participation as a spectator at an illegal cockfight.
- Date
- By 2018-07-16
- Conviction
- Animal-cruelty / cockfighting conviction arising from participation as a spectator at an illegal cockfight.
- Date
- By 2018-07-16
- Conviction
- Animal-cruelty / cockfighting conviction arising from participation as a spectator at an illegal cockfight.
- Date
- By 2018-07-16
- Conviction
- Felony animal cruelty under Penal Code §597(a) for slashing police dog Bono with a knife; separate offenses also involved harm to a police dog and other crimes.
- Date
- Before 2023-01-17
- Conviction
- One misdemeanor count of animal cruelty arising from the NorCal K9 investigation.
- Date
- Before 2020-07-13; exact plea date not stated
- Conviction
- Animal cruelty — three dogs killed in intentionally set house fire
- Date
- 2026-08-06
- Conviction
- Eleven felony counts of animal cruelty in connection with deaths of 11 dogs; evidence-related offenses also charged/convicted.
- Date
- 2026-06-17
- Conviction
- One misdemeanor animal-abuse conviction arising from an animal-hoarding case in which more than 200 live and deceased animals were found at the property.
- Date
- 2026-06-01
- Conviction
- One felony animal-abuse conviction arising from an animal-hoarding case in which more than 200 live and deceased animals were found at the property.
- Date
- 2026-06-01
- Conviction
- One misdemeanor count of animal cruelty / criminal neglect or abuse of animals involving dogs kept and bred on her property.
- Date
- 2026-05-18
- Conviction
- Animal cruelty (Penal Code §597(b)); repeatedly kicked a neighbor's small dog.
- Date
- 2026-04-07
- Conviction
- Animal cruelty for beating his dog with a metal chain leash; the case was originally filed as one felony animal-cruelty count.
- Date
- 2026-02-23
- Conviction
- Animal cruelty in the beating death of an 8-week-old puppy.
- Date
- 2026-02-16
- Conviction
- Two counts felony cruelty to an animal, PC 597(b)
- Date
- 2025-12-15
- Conviction
- Animal cruelty; stabbed the family cat nine times and attempted to suffocate the cat, alongside offenses against his parents.
- Date
- 2025-10-30
- Conviction
- Assaulting a police animal causing serious injury, felony
- Date
- 2025-10-16
- Conviction
- Felony animal abuse for neglecting a dog's severe injury.
- Date
- 2025-10-15
- Conviction
- Animal abuse/neglect; repeat animal-abuse conduct, alongside child-abuse offenses.
- Date
- 2025-09-18
- Conviction
- Animal abuse/neglect involving numerous animals, alongside child-abuse offenses.
- Date
- 2025-09-18
- Conviction
- Felony animal cruelty; separate drug-possession felony
- Date
- 2025-07-14
- Conviction
- Operating cockfighting events; sponsoring/exhibiting roosters in an animal-fighting venture.
- Date
- 2025-06-16
- Conviction
- Felony animal cruelty (Penal Code §597(a)) for beating a sick sea lion; also methamphetamine possession.
- Date
- 2025-06-16
- Conviction
- Felony animal cruelty; surveillance video showed abuse of a young German Shepherd mix in Long Beach.
- Date
- 2025-05-07
- Conviction
- Conspiracy to sponsor roosters for fighting / cockfighting venture.
- Date
- 2025 (plea date not stated in DOJ bulletin)
- Conviction
- Felony animal cruelty; beat dog Rex to death with a stick; also failure to register as a sex offender.
- Date
- 2025 (plea before 2025-10-23 sentencing)
- Conviction
- Five counts of animal cruelty; investigation involved a bound/injured cat and multiple cat deaths/injuries.
- Date
- 2025 (plea before 2025-08-06 sentencing)
- Conviction
- Felony animal cruelty; kicked dog Benny and ran him over with a vehicle, killing him.
- Date
- 2024-12 (exact day not stated)
- Conviction
- Misdemeanor animal cruelty under California Penal Code 597(b)
- Date
- 2024-10-24
- Conviction
- Misdemeanor animal cruelty (Penal Code §597(b)); official veterinary-board record confirms the criminal conviction.
- Date
- 2024-10-24
- Conviction
- Felony animal cruelty; hanged his estranged wife's French bulldog from a stairway banister during a domestic-violence incident; the dog survived. Additional plea counts included attempted torture, weapon use, residential burglary, domestic violence, and threats.
- Date
- 2024-08 (announced 2024-08-23; exact plea day not stated)
- Conviction
- Unlawful possession of animals for an animal fighting venture (cockfighting)
- Date
- 2024-07-29
- Conviction
- Unlawful possession of animals for an animal-fighting venture under the Animal Welfare Act; also drug conspiracy.
- Date
- 2024-07-29
- Conviction
- Felony animal cruelty (Penal Code §597(a)); repeated physical abuse of a pit bull terrier.
- Date
- 2024-05 (exact day not stated)
- Conviction
- Misdemeanor animal cruelty (Penal Code §597(b)); dogs in her custody escaped and fatally attacked a neighbor's French Bulldog.
- Date
- 2024-05 (exact day not stated)
- Conviction
- Misdemeanor animal cruelty
- Date
- 2024-05
- Conviction
- Felony animal cruelty
- Date
- 2024-05
- Conviction
- Four felony counts of animal abuse involving repeated stabbing of school animals, with a deadly/dangerous-weapon allegation; also convicted of felony burglary and felony resisting.
- Date
- 2024-04 (conviction reported 2024-04-19; exact verdict day not independently retained)
- Conviction
- Animal cruelty; killed Chihuahua Rosie by cutting/slitting the dog's throat, along with domestic-violence offenses.
- Date
- 2024-01-17
- Conviction
- Felony cruelty to an animal; felony commercial burglary over $950
- Date
- 2023-12-13
- Conviction
- Two counts of animal cruelty; stabbed dogs Bella and Rosco, with Rosco later euthanized; also vandalism convictions.
- Date
- 2023-12-07
- Conviction
- Felony animal cruelty (Penal Code §597(b)); related commercial burglary.
- Date
- 2023-11-09
- Conviction
- Misdemeanor animal cruelty (Penal Code §597); kicked, punched, and dragged his Labradoodle.
- Date
- 2023-09-06
- Conviction
- Ten counts of animal cruelty involving prolonged abuse of dogs.
- Date
- 2023-08-02
- Conviction
- Four misdemeanor counts involving cockfighting and animal cruelty, including Penal Code §§597(b), 597b(b), 597i(a), and 597j(a).
- Date
- 2023-05-15
- Conviction
- Conspiracy to violate the Animal Welfare Act by selling gamecocks and participating in cockfighting; firearm offenses also involved.
- Date
- 2023-05-08
- Conviction
- Felony animal cruelty involving 25 German Shepherd/Husky-type dogs kept in deplorable, unsanitary and neglectful conditions.
- Date
- 2023-03 (exact day not stated)
- Conviction
- Possession of 27 dogs for use in an animal-fighting venture.
- Date
- 2022-12-21
- Conviction
- Unlawful possession of roosters for use in an animal-fighting venture / illegal cockfighting.
- Date
- 2022-11-10
- Conviction
- PC 597.1(a), misdemeanor failure to care for animals
- Date
- 2022-07-13
- Conviction
- Animal cruelty; stabbed his dog and set the dog on fire while alive; dog died. Also convicted of arson and other offenses.
- Date
- 2022-06-30
- Conviction
- Two felony crimes of animal cruelty
- Date
- 2022-06-02
- Conviction
- Conspiracy to violate the Animal Welfare Act by operating an animal-fighting/cockfighting venture and breeding/shipping fighting birds.
- Date
- 2021-12-03
- Conviction
- Animal crushing
- Date
- 2021-11-01
- Conviction
- Felony animal cruelty involving fatal stabbing of a dog; two misdemeanor child-endangerment counts also resolved
- Date
- 2021-11
- Conviction
- Animal cruelty under California Penal Code 597(a), with firearm-use enhancement
- Date
- 2021-10-04
- Conviction
- Felony animal cruelty (Penal Code §597(a)); admitted shooting a horse under his care, along with violent offenses against a sheriff's deputy.
- Date
- 2021-10-04
- Conviction
- Four felony counts of cruelty to an animal; deadly-weapon enhancements
- Date
- 2021-08-12
- Conviction
- Four felony counts of cruelty to an animal; deadly-weapon enhancements
- Date
- 2021-08-12
- Conviction
- Felony animal cruelty and misdemeanor animal neglect involving numerous cats that died or became seriously ill.
- Date
- 2021-07-29
- Conviction
- Felony animal cruelty with use of a weapon
- Date
- 2021-06
- Conviction
- Felony animal cruelty (Penal Code §597(a)) involving malicious killing, maiming, torture, wounding, or mutilation of a dog; additional firearm offenses.
- Date
- 2021-04-28
- Conviction
- Felony animal cruelty for neglecting to provide adequate sustenance, shelter, and medical care to approximately 42 rabbits
- Date
- 2021-04-02
- Conviction
- Felony animal cruelty; allowing property to be used for cockfighting
- Date
- 2020-12-15
- Conviction
- Felony criminally negligent animal cruelty (Penal Code §597(b)) by neglect; dog Sprocket suffered severe burns, went without emergency veterinary care, became critically ill, and later died.
- Date
- 2020-11 (verdict reported 2020-11-23; exact verdict day not independently retained)
- Conviction
- Felony criminally negligent animal cruelty (Penal Code §597(b)) by neglect; dog Sprocket suffered severe burns, went without emergency veterinary care, became critically ill, and later died.
- Date
- 2020-11 (verdict reported 2020-11-23; exact verdict day not independently retained)
- Conviction
- Animal cruelty under Penal Code 597(a); misdemeanor after court reduction
- Date
- 2020-10-05
- Conviction
- Failure to care for a dog / animal cruelty-neglect involving dog Peanut.
- Date
- 2020-07-09
- Conviction
- Animal cruelty
- Date
- 2020-04-15
- Conviction
- Animal cruelty; also convicted of resisting arrest.
- Date
- 2020-03-03
- Conviction
- Animal cruelty in the traumatic death of dog Kitty; also domestic-violence offense.
- Date
- 2020-03 (plea announced; exact day not stated)
- Conviction
- Four felony counts of animal cruelty involving dogs at NorCal K9; two dogs were euthanized.
- Date
- 2020-03 (exact day not stated)
- Conviction
- Two counts animal abuse by neglect (Penal Code §597(b)) involving dog Karma and horse Sweetie.
- Date
- 2020-02-11
- Conviction
- Animal cruelty
- Date
- 2019-12-11
- Conviction
- One misdemeanor count of Penal Code §597(b), animal cruelty, involving severe neglect/starvation of a dog.
- Date
- 2019-02-25
- Conviction
- One misdemeanor count cruelty to an animal
- Date
- 2019-01-11
- Conviction
- One misdemeanor count cruelty to an animal
- Date
- 2019-01-11
- Conviction
- Animal cruelty; separate vandalism and resisting offenses.
- Date
- 2018-10-31
- Conviction
- Animal cruelty
- Date
- 2018-10-17
- Conviction
- Animal cruelty under Penal Code §597(a), originally a felony conviction involving use of a knife; later reduced to a misdemeanor under Penal Code §17(b).
- Date
- 2018-09-24
- Conviction
- One felony count of Penal Code §597(b), animal cruelty, for neglect of a Cane Corso.
- Date
- 2018-09-20
- Conviction
- Misdemeanor cruelty to an animal; misdemeanor failure to care for animal
- Date
- 2018-08-21
- Conviction
- Felony animal abuse; separate domestic-violence conviction.
- Date
- 2018-08
- Conviction
- Animal cruelty arising from beating a dog to death.
- Date
- 2018-08
- Conviction
- Aiding and abetting an unlawful animal-fighting venture involving cockfighting.
- Date
- 2018-07-16
- Conviction
- Felony animal cruelty under Penal Code §597(a).
- Date
- 2018-01-10
- Conviction
- One misdemeanor count of Penal Code §597j — possession of gamecocks for fighting purposes.
- Date
- 2017-10-16
- Conviction
- Misdemeanor animal cruelty plus failure-to-care and animal-at-large offenses involving an untreated dog.
- Date
- 2017-09-06
- Conviction
- One misdemeanor count of Penal Code §597(b), animal cruelty, involving severe neglect of a dog.
- Date
- 2017-04-28
- Conviction
- Animal cruelty and neglect involving multiple dogs and birds.
- Date
- 2016-11-03
- Conviction
- Animal cruelty and neglect involving multiple dogs and birds.
- Date
- 2016-11-03
- Conviction
- Felony animal cruelty / neglect.
- Date
- 2016-06-13
- Conviction
- Animal cruelty involving abuse of a cat.
- Date
- 2016-05-25
- Conviction
- PC 597(a)
- Date
- 2016-05-17
- Conviction
- Animal cruelty
- Date
- 2016-05-06
- Conviction
- One felony count of animal cruelty with weapon use.
- Date
- 2016-04-28
- Conviction
- Misdemeanor cruelty to an animal involving abuse of a cat.
- Date
- 2016-01-13
- Conviction
- Misdemeanor cruelty to an animal involving abuse of a cat.
- Date
- 2016-01-13
- Conviction
- Felony animal cruelty.
- Date
- 2015-11-30
- Conviction
- Misdemeanor animal cruelty.
- Date
- 2015-10-30
- Conviction
- One misdemeanor count of Penal Code §597(a), animal cruelty, for repeatedly striking a dog.
- Date
- 2015-09-25
- Conviction
- One count of animal cruelty for killing a pet rabbit.
- Date
- 2015-09-04
- Conviction
- Animal cruelty
- Date
- 2015-09-03
- Conviction
- Eleven felony counts of animal cruelty.
- Date
- 2015-08-28
- Conviction
- One felony count of animal cruelty for killing chickens at a Foster Farms facility; separate second-degree burglary count.
- Date
- 2015-04-15
- Conviction
- One misdemeanor count of animal cruelty involving deprivation of veterinary care, food, and water to multiple dogs.
- Date
- 2015-03-27