{"id":1037527,"date":"2026-09-01T21:13:24","date_gmt":"2026-09-01T21:13:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1037527\/"},"modified":"2026-09-01T21:13:24","modified_gmt":"2026-09-01T21:13:24","slug":"phoenix-man-accused-of-animal-cruelty-found-with-drugs-during-arrest-pd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1037527\/","title":{"rendered":"Phoenix man accused of animal cruelty found with drugs during arrest: PD"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

PHOENIX<\/strong> – Court documents state a Phoenix man is facing animal cruelty and drug-related charges for allegedly mistreating an animal near a South Phoenix canal.<\/p>\n

What we know:<\/p>\n

Per the documents, 53-year-old Baldemar Ruiz Mora is facing the following:<\/p>\n

The backstory:<\/p>\n

In the documents, investigators said the incident that led to Mora’s arrest happened on the afternoon of Aug. 31 in the area of 4th Avenue and Baseline Road<\/a>, when an officer with a Phoenix Police Neighborhood Enforcement team saw a man loitering in a nearby canal.<\/p>\n

“The male was holding a chain and dangling it within the water,” a police officer wrote in the court documents. “As I drove by, I saw the top of a dog’s head and its snout barely breaking the [the water surface] and going back under.”<\/p>\n

The officer, per court documents, later saw the dog trying to climb out when the man, who they later identified as Mora, “[extended] his leg out and shoved the dog back into the rushing water.”<\/p>\n

Dig deeper:<\/p>\n

Mora, according to police, was later taken into custody by officers. It was during that time when officers found “a few grams of a white powdery substance on his person along with a single blue M\/30 pill.”<\/p>\n

“The white powdery substance was admitted to being methamphetamine from the defendant, and also field-tested as methamphetamine by a controlled substance officer,” read a portion of the court documents.<\/p>\n

The other side:<\/p>\n

Police say in an interview that was done after Mora was read his Miranda rights<\/a>, Mora said he was “just letting his dog swim.”<\/p>\n

“He refuted being careless and said he would never kill his dog,” officials wrote.<\/p>\n

Investigators say Mora later got to see a video of the incident that was taken by police, after which he said he was sorry.<\/p>\n

“He agreed it did look bad and he agreed he should of helped the dog instead of making it swim,” read a portion of the documents.<\/p>\n

As for the drugs that were allegedly found, court document say the drugs were found in a backpack, and Mora said he found the backpack along the canal.<\/p>\n

“The defendant did admit to using meth in the past but claims he was not going to use the meth that was found,” detectives wrote.<\/p>\n

What’s next:<\/p>\n

Court documents state that a judge has set a $7,500 bond for Mora. A preliminary hearing is scheduled for Sept. 9.<\/p>\n

\"(U.S. Area where the incident happened <\/p>\n

The Source:<\/b> Information for this article was gathered from court documents relevant to the case.<\/p>\n

Crime and Public Safety<\/a>Phoenix<\/a>News<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHOENIX – Court documents state a Phoenix man is facing animal cruelty and drug-related charges for allegedly mistreating…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":880165,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5131],"tags":[5229,5643,1587,6082,1588,50,1589,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":["post-1037527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-phoenix","tag-america","tag-arizona","tag-az","tag-crime-publicsafety","tag-maricopa-county","tag-news","tag-phoenix","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/117197854331444578","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1037527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1037527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1037527\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/880165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1037527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1037527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1037527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}