Overview
- Surveillance video from about 7:35 a.m. on Dec. 1 shows a Ford Expedition in an Anaheim alley with a rope tied between a bollard and the tow hitch, looped around a small dog’s neck, before the SUV accelerated and snapped the animal’s neck.
- The dog, believed by prosecutors to be a six-year-old pregnant Maltese, was left dead with a severed spine and arteries in the 600 block of S. Brookhurst Street.
- Anaheim police identified and arrested Eric Lyn Holliday within hours, and prosecutors say he possessed several baggies of methamphetamine at the time.
- Holliday is charged with felony animal cruelty, felony possession of a hard drug with two or more prior convictions, and violating probation.
- He faces a maximum of eight years four months on the felony counts plus up to four years eight months for the probation violation, and the case is assigned to Deputy District Attorney Michael Chay as DA Todd Spitzer publicly condemned the act.