- Conviction
- Felony animal cruelty involving sexual abuse of a pregnant pit bull; also convicted of unnatural intercourse.
- Date
- Sentenced in 2025; exact plea/sentencing day not stated in retained final-disposition source
Source-verified state registry
Mississippi 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.
32 verified recordsReview in progressLast reviewed 2026-09-01
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- Date range reviewed
- Record-level official sources reviewed; statewide 2015-present backfill incomplete
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- Statewide and major local official sources have not been reviewed for the complete 2015-present period.
- Conviction
- One reported aggravated-animal-cruelty plea involving the killing of a neighbor's dog. Do not infer additional criminal counts.
- Date
- Sentenced by 2025-03-14; exact plea/sentencing day not stated
- Conviction
- Four felony counts of aggravated animal cruelty and three misdemeanor counts of malicious injury involving an estimated 140 dogs.
- Date
- Sentenced April 2025; exact sentencing day not stated in retained source
- Conviction
- Six counts of simple cruelty to a cat or dog.
- Date
- Sentenced 2026-08-05; exact trial date not separately stated in retained source
- Conviction
- One felony count of aggravated animal cruelty for killing a cat by placing it in a clothes dryer.
- Date
- Sentenced 2025-09-12; exact plea date not separately stated in retained source
- Conviction
- One count of unnatural intercourse involving a dog; the related attempted-unnatural-intercourse charge was not the final conviction.
- Date
- Sentenced 2025-01-24; guilty plea confirmed in final reporting
- Conviction
- One misdemeanor count of animal cruelty involving the killing of Carl the Rooster.
- Date
- Convicted 2022-10-26; sentenced March 2023
- Conviction
- Two surviving misdemeanor animal-cruelty convictions: one involving cruel confinement/neglect of six horses and one combined simple-cruelty offense involving three dogs and four cats.
- Date
- Circuit judgment 2018-08-30; Mississippi Supreme Court decision 2020-01-16
- Conviction
- Animal cruelty-related county-ordinance offense involving mistreatment of a cat. Source states no felony Dog and Cat Pet Protection Act conviction; statutory ordinance number not stated.
- Date
- By 2024-02-27; exact arraignment day not stated
- Conviction
- Cruelty to living creatures, Mississippi Code § 97-41-1: failing to provide food/sustenance to two horses. Number of final counts not explicitly stated.
- Date
- By 2023-07-21; exact conviction/sentencing day not stated
- Conviction
- Misdemeanor neglect for tethering a mule without access to food or water.
- Date
- By 2023-01-03; exact conviction day not released
- Conviction
- Animal cruelty for severe neglect of dogs. Exact number of adjudicated criminal counts is not stated; do not equate animal count with conviction count.
- Date
- By 2022-12-19; exact trial/sentencing day not stated
- Conviction
- Animal cruelty under the Mississippi Dog and Cat Pet Protection Law for prolonged neglect/tethering of a dog without adequate food, water, or shelter.
- Date
- By 2021-05-08; exact court date not stated
- Conviction
- One count of unnatural intercourse involving a family dog.
- Date
- 2026-04-01
- Conviction
- 10 counts of misdemeanor simple animal cruelty involving dogs.
- Date
- 2023-08-11
- Conviction
- Animal cruelty involving severe neglect of dogs. Final criminal-count total not stated; create one episode rather than treating 17 rescued dogs as 17 convictions.
- Date
- 2023-07-13
Source verified
Richard J. McGuire
Mobile, Alabama (offense/prosecution in Moss Point/Gulfport, Mississippi), MS
- Conviction
- Animal crushing — shooting police K-9 Buddy
- Date
- 2023-01-12
- Conviction
- Animal cruelty/neglect of a German Shepherd and a mother dog and puppies. Exact number of criminal counts not stated.
- Date
- 2021-08-25
- Conviction
- Animal cruelty under Mississippi's Dog and Cat Pet Protection Law for tethering a dog without shelter or water in freezing conditions.
- Date
- 2021-01-12
- Conviction
- 38 counts of animal cruelty involving neglected dogs.
- Date
- 2020-10-15
- Conviction
- Aggravated animal cruelty for intentionally killing two neighboring dogs; final criminal-count total not stated in source.
- Date
- 2020-08-13
- Conviction
- Participation in a pit bull dogfighting venture
- Date
- 2020-07-14
- Conviction
- Two counts animal cruelty — shooting and killing two dogs
- Date
- 2019-11-12
- Conviction
- Three counts dog fighting under Miss. Code § 97-41-19
- Date
- 2019-11-07
- Conviction
- One count of animal cruelty involving failure to provide adequate food and water to a Great Dane.
- Date
- 2019-08-13
- Conviction
- Four counts of animal cruelty involving severe neglect of four horses.
- Date
- 2019-08-01
- Conviction
- One animal-cruelty conviction for the shooting death of at least one dog.
- Date
- 2019-02-14
- Conviction
- Animal cruelty under Miss. Code § 97-41-1 arising from beating a four-month-old puppy; source notes the defendant was mistakenly charged under a statute generally excluding dogs and cats.
- Date
- 2018-03-01
- Conviction
- Misdemeanor conviction arising from a documented lewd/sexual act with a dog; exact misdemeanor offense label not stated in the final-disposition source.
- Date
- 2017-03-14
- Conviction
- Aggravated cruelty/abuse to a cat for scalding a caged cat with boiling water.
- Date
- 2017-02-07
- Conviction
- Simple abuse/cruelty to a cat arising from the same cat-scalding episode.
- Date
- 2017-02-07
- Conviction
- Simple animal cruelty involving a dog left tied to a stake without food, water, or shelter.
- Date
- 2015-11-24