Man gets animal cruelty charge for fleeing Miami police with kittens in car, cops say

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Jordan Duberry (MDCR/Pixabay)

MIAMI – A antheral who Miami constabulary said tried to outrun officers Thursday not lone received a felony fleeing and eluding charge, but an carnal cruelty complaint arsenic well.

That’s due to the fact that constabulary accidental the operator sped distant from cops and ran aggregate halt signs with 2 unsecured kittens successful the vehicle.

An apprehension study states that Miami constabulary tried to propulsion implicit Jordan John Duberry, 23, of Fort Myers, astatine Southwest 12th Avenue and West Flagler Street successful Little Havana arsenic helium drove an Infiniti G37 without a licence sheet and ran a “solid” reddish light.

After the serviceman activated his lights, constabulary said Duberry, who had a suspended license, turned around, looked astatine him and past took disconnected astatine a “high complaint of speed” and drove the incorrect mode successful traffic, starring constabulary to deactivate their lights.

After moving aggregate halt signs, authorities said Duberry turned into a dead-end parking batch connected Coral Way adjacent Southwest 13th Avenue and officers took him into custody, the study states.

The serviceman saw “two babe kittens” wrong the car that initially “appeared to beryllium lifeless” but were alive, constabulary said.

“Although a cage was present, the kittens were not placed wrong it and were alternatively observed moving freely wrong the vehicle, specifically connected the floorboard of the beforehand rider side,” helium wrote.

The serviceman wrote that the kittens were “not secured by immoderate means, leaving them highly vulnerable” arsenic Duberry sped done the Little Havana and Coral Way areas.

“Due to their young property and tiny size, immoderate abrupt braking, abrupt turns, oregon a postulation collision could person caused the kittens to beryllium crushed, thrown, oregon different severely injured,” helium wrote, constituting a “disregard for their information and could reasonably beryllium considered carnal cruelty.”

According to jailhouse records, a justice agreed connected Friday, uncovering probable origin to complaint Duberry with the misdemeanor carnal cruelty number arsenic good arsenic fleeing and eluding and resisting apprehension without violence

The resisting apprehension complaint came aft constabulary said Duberry “tensed his assemblage and braced his extremities successful an effort to resist” arsenic an serviceman tried to unafraid him successful the backmost of a cruiser arsenic helium yelled towards his girlfriend.

As of Friday, helium was being held successful the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center connected a $3,500 bond.

Authorities said Duberry’s woman took the kittens.