‘Heinous act’: Police make arrest after they say video shows North Miami man ‘stomping’ on kitten

NORTH MIAMI, Fla. – A North Miami antheral is facing an carnal cruelty complaint aft the city’s constabulary section said helium was caught “stomping connected a achromatic kitten and trying to wedge the feline into a metallic drainage grate.”

Police said the incidental happened connected April 1, but fishy Watner Noel Janvier took disconnected from constabulary during 2 abstracted attempts to apprehension him. An apprehension study states they recovered him connected Wednesday.

The study states that a witnesser took video of the onslaught adjacent Northwest 136th Street and Sixth Avenue and erstwhile helium “yelled” astatine Janvier, the 20-year-old “grabbed the kitten and fled.”

That video was aboriginal posted to societal media outlet Only successful Dade.

“The assemblage saw thing and it said something, that’s fig one,” Maj. Kessler Brooks, a North Miami Police Department spokesperson, said Thursday. “Number 2 is conscionable a heinous enactment that was committed against a defenseless animal.”

After giving the kitten to a woman, helium past fled the responding officers who tried to apprehend him, constabulary said.

Two days later, Janvier’s household called North Miami constabulary to archer them that helium was home, the study states. Police said helium successfully took disconnected again.

“He kept connected fleeing,” Brooks said. “And our detectives were diligent, nonstop, going backmost out. He made himself elusive. We were backmost retired determination to get him.”

Authorities said they recovered Janvier connected Wednesday astatine his location adjacent the transgression scene. He “denied trying to termination oregon discard the kitten and stated what the video shows was not true,” the study states.

The kitten is believed to person died.

“We did not find the remains of that animal, of the kitten, but different autarkic witnesser told america that, successful fact, it had died,” Brooks said. “That adjacent more, tugged astatine the heartstrings of everyone who knew this, including our officers, and we wanted to bring this idiosyncratic to justice.

“That’s wherefore we went retired determination and continued on. It’s been a month, and we did not fto it go.”

Police arrested Janvier connected charges of carnal cruelty with intent to injure oregon termination and resisting arrest.

Body camera video obtained exclusively by Local 10 News shows officers taking him into custody.

As of Thursday, helium was nary longer listed successful Miami-Dade jailhouse records.

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