Deputies in the Florida Keys arrested a woman on an aggravated animal cruelty charge after they said she "deliberately and callously" suffocated and drowned a 6-to-10-month-old puppy in a tote bag Monday afternoon.
According to an arrest report from the Monroe County Sheriff's Office, deputies responded to the 100 block of Palmetto Avenue on Big Pine Key at around 330 p.m. after a neighbor reported that Delaine Abee Lowry, 72, drowned the miniature Schnauzer.
Authorities said she "forcefully submerged" the dog "beneath the murky rainwater" in a blue, 5-gallon plastic tote and suffocated it until it was "motionless and deceased."
That neighbor told deputies that Lowry came to his home asking if she could bury the dog in his yard, the report states. Deputies said after he told her no, Lowry said, "I'll just throw it over the fence."
A deputy went to Lowry's home and she "handed him a white plastic grocery bag" containing the dead puppy, it states.
