The Region - News from Nov. 30, 1986

Sheriff’s deputies arrested a man for dragging a horse to death behind a pickup truck. Deputies followed a trail of blood from Alameda Boulevard and Main Street in the Carson area to a stable at Athens Way and Figueroa Street, where they arrested Edward Hardwick, 46, on suspicion of felony cruelty to animals. A sheriff’s spokesman said Hardwick, who had owned the horse for five years, first told them the animal had died two days ago--then changed his story to say it had fallen off the back of his pickup truck. But an animal control officer examined the animal’s remains and told deputies it had died only a short time earlier after suffering massive trauma from being dragged along a rough surface. Hardwick’s bail was set at $1,000.