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Sue sue

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Jimmy the bloodhound lived in Enriquez’s Davie home with his wife and two children. Enriquez took him to work each day, trained Jimmy and fed and cared for him. Hialeah police considered Jimmy’s adoption “one of the best day’s in Hialeah police history.”

On Wednesday morning after returning home from his midnight shift, Enriquez entered his home without Jimmy and a 4-year-old Belgian Malinois he also cared for named Hector. He left the dogs in the back cabin of a Ford Explorer SUV with the engine turned off.

When Enriquez returned to the car several hours later, the dogs were dead.

What happened in this time frame?

Though Hialeah police wouldn’t give an exact time, they said Enriquez’s midnight shift ended at 7 a.m., and that he was home by sometime “mid-morning.” They said the dogs were alone in the car for four or five hours in the broiling midday sun.....

Enriquez, a 13-year veteran who has spent the past seven years on K9 patrol, has been suspended with pay. While Davie police investigate, Hialeah police are running a parallel investigation into Enriquez’s actions through internal affairs.



....,,The city’s Honor Guard escorted Jimmy and Hector on Thursday from a veterinarian’s office in Hollywood to the lab at the University of Florida in Gainesville, where necropsies will be performed. Zogby promised a full memorial service when the canines’ corpses are returned to Hialeah.

According to Zogby, Enriquez, Jimmy and Hector worked from 11 p.m. Tuesday until 7 a.m. Wednesday. He said the three were delayed several hours because Jimmy was needed to help in the search for an elderly person after Enriquez’s shift ended.

Zogby couldn’t explain why it took until almost 7 p.m. for Enriquez to call Davie police.
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If Enriquez is charged with a crime or malfeasance for the unnatural death of a K9 partner it would be unusual, but not unheard of.

In 2007, Miami-Dade police Sgt. Allen Cockfield was charged with animal cruelty after prosecutors determined a kick he administered to his German shepherd Duke during a training session was a fatal blow. Cockfield was later acquitted at trail.

Then in March 2008, Miami officer Rondal Brown was arrested and charged with animal cruelty after his bloodhound Dynasty starved to death.

Dynasty, as was Jimmy the bloodhound, also was donated to the department by the Jimmy Ryce Center, a charity named in the child’s honor. Dynasty was discovered starving and emaciated. Brown later left the police department and agreed to serve probation on animal cruelty charges.

Weighing in Thursday on the loss of the dogs was Don Ryce, Jimmy Ryce’s father and an advocate in helping police find missing children since his child’s murder in 1995 in South Miami-Dade. Jimmy, who did search and discovery primarily for children, was the department’s only bloodhound.

“I am deeply saddened to learn of the tragic death of two remarkable police dogs,” Ryce said. “Our mission is stronger than ever and with the public’s help we hope to be able to raise funds to replace these dogs.”
http://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/community/miami-dade/hialeah/article22496112.html
 
Well this is just fucking awful. I saw a bit of this story on the news while I was at the gym last night. I couldn't tell what exactly had occurred because there was no audio or subtitles, and I thought they'd been killed in the line of duty.

There's just no excuse for this. If a criminal were to injure a K9, aren't the charges similar/the same as assaulting a police officer? There should be stiffer penalties for this as well, IMO. The guy in Miami getting probation (for a willful killing, no less) is absolute bullshit.

RIP Jimmy and Hector. :(
 
How does a 7 year K9 veteran officer forget about his dogs for so long that they die in the car? Their dogs are their partners, their "other half", how do you forget about them?
 
;)That is waaayyyy too long of an article for a dude who forgot some dogs in a car. I understand that it's technically an "officer", but they're seriously pouring money into this investigation? o_O

ETA: @Sue sue - didn't mean your write up was too long, meant the newspaper article just in case you took it that way ;)
 
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;)That is waaayyyy too long of an article for a dude who forgot some dogs in a car. I understand that it's technically an "officer", but they're seriously pouring money into this investigation? o_O

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As soon as a feline officer is left in a patrol car to suffer a slow miserablemiserable (100% preventable) death, I will do my damdest to make sure its front page mews. Oh wait , it'll never happen, not because cats aren't smart enough to perform that kind of work... Because cats don't give a shit.
 
I think having a dog partner 24/7 would be a fucking drag...I love dogs. I just mean...holy fuck...you have to take your work home with you every single day and that would suck shit. Not saying this guy is guilty or innocent or if it was purposeful or an accident. Just saying having a police dog might suck balls.
 
I think having a dog partner 24/7 would be a fucking drag...I love dogs. I just mean...holy fuck...you have to take your work home with you every single day and that would suck shit. Not saying this guy is guilty or innocent or if it was purposeful or an accident. Just saying having a police dog might suck balls.
Well I can see what you are saying. It must be a terrific adrenaline rush to work with a dog but like a lot of experiences in life, the newness wears off.
It must be a constant reminder to the officer of what he does for a living and what he faces every day.
I understand your context; not saying the death of the dog isn't terrible and certainly this officer showed gross negligence.
 
I'm sure it was a simple accident. People leave their kids in the car to die and don't get charged with a crime, but because it's a couple of dogs people are becoming all unglued. Accidents happen. Demanding that EVERYONE be punished for EVERY little thing isn't fucking reasonable, but everyone does it and then bitches about how unreasonable our society has become.
 
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Well I can see what you are saying. It must be a terrific adrenaline rush to work with a dog but like a lot of experiences in life, the newness wears off.
It must be a constant reminder to the officer of what he does for a living and what he faces every day.
I understand your context; not saying the death of the dog isn't terrible and certainly this officer showed gross negligence.

I think this officer was neglecting lots of things not just his dog...its incredibly sad.
 
I'm sure it was a simple accident. People leave their kids in the car to die and don't get charged with a crime, but because it's a couple of dogs people are becoming all unglued. Accidents happen. Demanding that EVERYONE be punished for EVERY little thing isn't fucking reasonable, but everyone does it and then bitches about how unreasonable our society has become.


Do you really believe parents do that by accident? How could you forget a child, or even leave one sleeping in a car...Holy its your kid...you made it...you HAVE to take it with you. All your kids are alive right...you picked up the whiney bugger took him in the house anyways. Do people really get away with with that....Noooooooo.
 
Do you really believe parents do that by accident? How could you forget a child, or even leave one sleeping in a car...Holy its your kid...you made it...you HAVE to take it with you. All your kids are alive right...you picked up the whiney bugger took him in the house anyways. Do people really get away with with that....Noooooooo.
Of course they do. People leave loaded handguns around for their toddlers to shoot themselves and THEY don't get charged with a crime, most of the time.
 
If a criminal were to injure a K9, aren't the charges similar/the same as assaulting a police officer? There should be stiffer penalties for this as well

Laws like that are only in place to further and excessively punish the public, they won't use the same standards and logic to penalize officers in cases like this.

;)That is waaayyyy too long of an article for a dude who forgot some dogs in a car. I understand that it's technically an "officer", but they're seriously pouring money into this investigation? o_O

ETA: @Sue sue - didn't mean your write up was too long, meant the newspaper article just in case you took it that way ;)

While i agree it may seem a bit much, the significance of this story shouldn't be taken lightly. If this officer could be this shockingly careless and irresponsible with his dogs, imagine what else he could fuck up. A cops ineptitude can quite easily lead to deaths. This guy has no place on any police force, clearly.

And let's not forget the MASSIVE amount of trust the public places in police to begin with when it even comes to K-9 units and their use. These animal "officers" chomp down on suspects and the individuals only hope is that the human handler knows what they're doing and is responsible and has at least an ounce of respect for the law and their fellow human beings. I barely trust a standup, straight laced, hotshot boyscout of an officer with a K-9(scratch that, i don't even fully trust them, not with an instinctual predator with sharp teeth comin along), let alone a total failure of a cop like this dipshit. It's scary to think this guy was ever on the streets.

I'm sure it was a simple accident. People leave their kids in the car to die and don't get charged with a crime, but because it's a couple of dogs people are becoming all unglued. Accidents happen. Demanding that EVERYONE be punished for EVERY little thing isn't fucking reasonable, but everyone does it and then bitches about how unreasonable our society has become.

It's a cop though. That wasn't JUST a dog, that was a valuable tool of his trade, that was a no doubt quite sizable amount of tax dollars. It IS different than if a regular civlian joe killed their pet.
 
I have to agree that this is a very different case than a civilian leaving a dog in the car.
Police dogs go through years of training and can cost tens of thousands of tax dollars when its all said and done.
I wouldn't bitch if the cop faced criminal charges and I think leaving any living creature to die horribly in a hot car should be criminal for anyone.
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I also agree about people who leave their kids in the car. Give me a break...you FORGOT your kid? Really?
 
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