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A suspect has been arrested in alleged connection with the abandonment of a dog in December of 2025.<\/p>\n
According to Poland Township Police Department Chief Greg Wilson, Timothy Washington, 37, was arrested on Saturday, May 30.<\/p>\n
Court records show that Washington, pictured above, was charged with of prohibitions concerning companion animals (F5), abandoned animals (M2) and prohibitions concerning companion animals (M1).<\/p>\n
A court date has not been set for Washington at this time. He is currently being held in the Mahoning County Jail.<\/p>\n
Charges allegedly stem from a December 2025 incident where a French bulldog was dropped off behind the Every Dog Matters Rescue shelter in Boardman.<\/p>\n
The Mahoning County Dog Warden believed that the dog, which was severely injured, sat outdoors in the cold temperatures for about 10 hours before being discovered by shelter staff.<\/p>\n
The dog was believed to have been hit by a vehicle a few weeks prior. The resulting infection was so severe and had spread to other areas of her body that the dog had to be euthanized.<\/p>\n
Security footage from the rear of the building showed a man placing a cage on the ground and covering it with a cloth around 10:30 p.m. before driving away.<\/p>\n
That security video, and photos of the dog\u2019s condition, which are too graphic to share here, were shared on the Mahoning County Dog Warden\u2019s Facebook page<\/a> at the time.<\/p>\n Chief Wilson tells 21 News that there was great teamwork exhibited between the Poland Township Police Department, the Boardman Police Department and Every Dog Matters Rescue throughout the process.<\/p>\n He also highlighted the detective work that the police department conducted in order to identify the individual in the security video and obtain an arrest warrant.<\/p>\n More Coverage<\/p>\n Dog Warden, Animal Charity asking for help identifying man who dropped off seriously injured dog in Boardman<\/a><\/p>\n Download the WFMJ app for your\u00a0Apple<\/a>\u00a0or\u00a0Android<\/a>\u00a0smartphone or tablet to get our push alerts as news happens.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A suspect has been arrested in alleged connection with the abandonment of a dog in December of 2025.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9991,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[7569,7570,7568,7571,3361,9],"class_list":["post-9990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-poland","tag-animal-cruelty","tag-arrest","tag-dog-abandonment","tag-french-bulldog","tag-mahoning-county","tag-poland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9990\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}