A Michael Broad Blog
Lejandro Acosta Oliveros, a 45-year-old man from Santa Ana, California, was arrested on April 23, 2025, on felony animal cruelty charges after being accused of abducting, torturing, and killing over a dozen neighborhood cats over the past two years. The Santa Ana Police Department initiated the investigation following multiple reports from residents in the …
Here’s a five-bullet summary of the story: More: crime
AVOID websites answering the question “Are Bengal cats legal in Australia?” If you search for “Are Bengal cats legal in Australia?” you may find yourself clicking on Google search result which takes you to a website which has been created by malware hackers. The site that you visit may download malware (poisonous software) to …
Click this to see the screenshots. Warning: it is unpleasant but all you see is the landlord with a hand gun pointing at the cat. You don’t see the cat. I won’t show the video as Google does not like them (and I hate them). But I believe people should be aware of these …
In the UK, children between the ages of 10 and 17 are not sent to adult prisons if convicted of a crime but, instead, to special secure centres. A range of other options are available including referral orders in which the young offender is referred to a panel of trained community volunteers and a …
NEWS AND COMMENT: This is not hot of the press cat news because I’ve been slow to pick up on it but it needs reporting because it is exceptionally rare for judges to hand down a severe punishment to criminals who abuse and kill cats and kittens. And that statement applies to anywhere in …
A lot has been said in the news media about Scarlet Blake’s violent crimes against a cat and a man. The former was torture and killing and the latter was murder resulting in a 24-year prison sentence without parole and two and four-month prison sentences to run concurrently for the criminal damage and animal …
News media reports that the judge at Scarlet Blake’s sentencing trial has imposed concurrent two and four-month sentences relating to the cat killing. She received a 24-year prison sentence for killing a man without parole. It’s not clear to me why the sentencing for the cat killing is in two parts. Perhaps it relates …
