{"id":971304,"date":"2026-07-31T13:03:15","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T13:03:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/971304\/"},"modified":"2026-07-31T13:03:15","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T13:03:15","slug":"man-arrested-accused-of-killing-french-bulldog-in-west-bexar-county-bcso-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/971304\/","title":{"rendered":"Man arrested, accused of killing French Bulldog in west Bexar County, BCSO says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\"><strong>BEXAR COUNTY, Texas<\/strong> \u2013 The Bexar County Sheriff\u2019s Office said a man allegedly killed his 2-year-old French bulldog and then buried its remains in the backyard of a home. <\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\">Erik Estrada, 47, was arrested on Thursday and charged with animal cruelty, which is considered a third-degree felony, court records show. <\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\">Deputies responded to a report of animal cruelty around 4:10 p.m. Thursday in the 11200 block of Amberina, which is located in west Bexar County. <\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\">Upon arrival, deputies spoke with a witness who identified Estrada as the suspect, according to a BCSO preliminary report. <\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\">Estrada was allegedly involved in a disturbance on Wednesday. The report said \u201che became irate\u201d and struck the bulldog multiple times in the head. <\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\">After the alleged assault, BCSO said Estrada left the dog outside unattended for hours. The bulldog later died. <\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\">Estrada buried the dog in his backyard, where investigators subsequently located the remains.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\">According to jail records, Estrada was booked into the Bexar County Adult Detention Center on a $20,000 bond. As of Friday morning, he remains in BCSO custody. <\/p>\n<p>Read also:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 etvbxt font_openSans articleList\">\n<li class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Stack-vJ7SwH7U__StackBase-sc-1m5bkhd-0 evEXvX dsnUCb\"\/><\/ul>\n<p>Copyright 2026 by KSAT &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BEXAR COUNTY, Texas \u2013 The Bexar County Sheriff\u2019s Office said a man allegedly killed his 2-year-old French bulldog&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":971305,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5133],"tags":[5229,24144,24545,7288,4219,7202,7203,358,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":["post-971304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-antonio","tag-america","tag-animal-cruelty","tag-bcso","tag-bexar-county","tag-crime","tag-san-antonio","tag-sanantonio","tag-texas","tag-tx","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/117014731540259557","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/971304","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=971304"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/971304\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/971305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=971304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=971304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=971304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}