Saturday, April 09, 2011

Dog killer arrested again; Eureka man appears in court, scheduled to be arraigned next week


...Baltzley moved in with another family, which had four dogs. After about a week, all of the dogs began displaying irrational fear of Baltzley,... - Times-Standard
Officers with the Eureka Police Department arrested a Eureka man Thursday night after a weeks-long investigation into a series of dog deaths.

Donavan Nathaniel Baltzley, 22, is in custody again after officers arrested him for violating his probation, time he was sentenced to last year after pleading guilty to killing his ex-girlfriend's dog. Baltzley now faces two new charges of animal cruelty, in addition to violating his probation, and is due back in court for a pre-trial hearing next Wednesday.

Baltzley, who was given five years of probation by Judge Joyce Hinrichs last September, moved into the home of a Eureka family late last year. In January, the family -- which owned a pair of small Maltese dogs -- reported finding one of the dogs, 8-month-old Bentley, dead under a bed. Just before the dog's death, he began to show “irrational fear of Baltzley,” according to an EPD press release...

Humboldt County Deputy District Attorney Arnold Klein, who prosecuted the case last year, asked Hinrichs to send Baltzley back to state prison when he was sentenced. Hinrichs opted to suspend Baltzley's three-year prison term, instead handing him five years probation, time Klein said would have been better spent behind bars.

”There were some deep-seated issues with him,” Klein said in an interview on Friday. “He had the makings of a serial killer.”
Eureka’s Serial Dog Killer - The Journal
Dog killer kills again and again - McKinleyville Press

Eureka dog killer sentenced to five years probation - Ukiah Daily Journal 9/15/2010

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