Posted on 09/04/2024 12:13:27 PM PDT by Towed_Jumper
The Monterey County Sheriff’s Office has arrested a man after he allegedly began to fire multiple weapons and killed roughly 80 animals during an approximate three-hour period.
The sheriff's office said that they booked Vicente Joseph Arroyo, 39, of Salinas, into the Monterey County Jail on suspicion of discharging a gun with gross negligence, illegally possessing an assault weapon, animal cruelty, vandalism, making threats.
His bail was set at $50,000.
Efforts to speak to Arroyo or determine if he had an attorney were not immediately successful on Wednesday.
As the sheriff's office explained it, they began getting several calls on Tuesday about 3:30 a.m. about someone firing off a gun.
When deputies got to the scene in Prunedale – the 16000 block of Avery Lane – essentially a vineyard, it was covered in thick vegetation. Deputies said the gunfire didn't stop and they ordered a shelter-in-place for those living nearby.
Deputies said they could hear "various calibers of weapons" being fired and since it was dark that early in the morning, it made it very hard for them to immediately find who was behind the trigger, according to the sheriff's office.
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When they were finally able to secure the scene, deputies found about 80 miniature horses, goats, rabbits, guinea pigs, chickens, ducks and other types of birds had been killed.
Generally, in California, when one person shoots and kills another the liberals usually blame the gun. The question here is, when some crazy person kills a bunch of animals will the liberals blame the gun, or the crazy person?
Guns plural, they’ll blame the guns...
This is how they do things down in Mexico, right? No big deal there. You do that there, you might score a job with an employer who finds that kind of twisted person a valuable employee.
Murdering people who renege on drug deals, or as a coyote killing people who fail to pay up appropriately or otherwise become inconvenient.
Animal cruelty and deaths nearly always awaken the feelings of “let me alone with him for five minutes and you won’t need to waste time and money on the justice system.”
Nope but they won’t get on his lawn anymore.
AK variants the one at the bottom of the picture has it’s dustcover removed.
What kind of animals and why?
I’d say the perp was involved in devil worship.
Let's empty the cartridges of whatever guns he brought into his worthless carcass and then throw animal dung on the remains. That's about what he's worth. Poor helpless critters. What a twisted jerk.
I hate this jerk for killing all those innocent animals for no reason at all. Was he going to eat them?
And not far away in the valley at Harris Ranch thousands of cattle are butchered every week.
But those are killed for eating, not just because some idiot decided it would be fun to kill a bunch of helpless animals. People like this make it harder for law abiding gun owners.
I doubt it.
If it had been 80 unborn babies, no one would have gave a damn
The types of animals are mentioned in post 1. Maybe he has a grudge against the animals’ owner? What could be all that annoying about guinea pigs?!
“I hate this jerk for killing all those innocent animals for no reason at all. Was he going to eat them?”
No, but that is a great idea…l
When deputies got to the scene in Prunedale – the 16000 block of Avery Lane – essentially a vineyard, it was covered in thick vegetation. Deputies said the gunfire didn't stop and they ordered a shelter-in-place for those living nearby.Deputies said they could hear "various calibers of weapons" being fired and since it was dark that early in the morning, it made it very hard for them to immediately find who was behind the trigger, according to the sheriff's office.
The sheriff called for help, including the Monterey County SWAT team, drones from the Seaside Fire Department and the Gonzales Police Department.
Authorities finally were able to spot Arroyo from a drone, and the SWAT team moved in with an armored vehicle, commanding him to stand down.
They were able to arrest him without incident, the sheriff's office said.
When they were finally able to secure the scene, deputies found about 80 miniature horses, goats, rabbits, guinea pigs, chickens, ducks and other types of birds had been killed.
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