Overview
- Eric Lyn Holliday, 58, was arraigned in Orange County and entered a not-guilty plea to felony animal cruelty and felony drug possession charges.
- Authorities say a Dec. 1 surveillance video shows a man tying a rope between a parking bollard and his Ford Expedition in an Anaheim alley, looping it around a small dog’s neck, and accelerating until the animal’s neck snapped.
- Prosecutors identify the animal as a likely six-year-old pregnant Maltese and report injuries including a severed spine and arteries.
- Anaheim police arrested Holliday hours after the dog was found and allege he had several baggies of methamphetamine, leading to a hard-drug charge tied to prior convictions and a claimed probation violation.
- The Orange County DA cites a maximum of eight years and four months on the animal cruelty and drug counts, with up to four years and eight months more possible for the probation violation, and publicly condemned the killing as a planned act.