Man Pleads No Contest in Deaths of Puppies
A San Joaquin Valley man is probably going to jail for killing four stray puppies by casting them into an agricultural shredding machine.
Brandon Ferguson, 26, pleaded no contest to four felony counts of cruelty to animals, one felony count of dissuading a witness from reporting the crime and one felony count of threatening a witness.
Ferguson faces as much as four years and four months in prison when he is sentenced in September.
Ferguson was arrested July 11 after Tulare County sheriff’s deputies received an anonymous tip that Ferguson had killed the puppies in a silage chopper at Vieira Custom Chopping in Tulare the day before.
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