Overview
- At least seven dogs died after acute poisoning linked to treated grass in San Isidro’s Corpac area beginning on October 10.
- Municipal CCTV shows a man leaving a residence at Calle 28 and Ricardo Angulo and spreading a powder on park gardens, identified by officials as a presumed external gardener.
- Environmental health personnel preliminarily identified metomil, a highly toxic carbamate prohibited for urban use, as the likely agent.
- Mayor Nancy Vizurraga said the municipality neither authorized nor purchased metomil and cited protocols that ban its use, with the video and case materials delivered to the National Police and the Public Prosecutor.
- Authorities are conducting inspections and interviews as animal-protection groups prepare criminal complaints and residents hold vigils, while some neighbors fault the municipality for a delayed response.