State Attorney Drops Charges Against Tyler Weinman

[moobu2]

Source: MIAMI (CBS4)

Tyler Weinman, who had been charged with the killing and mutilating of cats in South Miami-Dade County, is now in the clear after an expert witness determined the cats were killed by predators, and not a human being.

His attorney David Macey told CBS4's Jim DeFede that Tyler found out the charges had been dropped when pre-trial services called him to tell him he could return the ankle monitor because he had been cleared of all charges.

Weinman had been facing facing 21 counts of felony animal cruelty and improperly disposing of an animal body as well as four counts of burglary. Weinman was accused of killing 21 cats in Palmetto Bay and Cutler Bay in 2009.

The State Attorney's Office noted in a close-out report on the case that it "is interesting to note that upon Tyler Weinman's arrest, the killings of the cats in Cutler Bay, Palmetto Bay, and the Kendall area immediately ceased."

"However, the State Attorney's Office did not learn that there had been two large, wild dogs seized by animal services the same day as Weinman's arrest in the neighborhood of Cutler Bay until the deposition of Investigator Fernando Casadevall which was conducted in the fall of 2010."

Read more: http://cbs4.com/local/Cat.Killings.Tyler.2.2022636.html

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I never thought for a moment anyone did this.

[islandmkl]

1. most likely he we will pick up where he was stopped...may be a while, but he'll do it...

second time will probably not work out so well for him...

"They gonna git you, boy"

[moobu2]

2. He didn't do it, nobody did, did you read the article?

some dogs were out killing cats in the area and they picked those dogs up earlier the same day they arrested Tyler Weinman. It was all a misunderstanding. Tyler Weinman didn't kill any cats.

[frylock]

3. ..

Defense expert, Dr. Richard K. Stroud, conducted necropsies on the cats that had been preserved and found that the cats had puncture wounds "consistent with bite marks of large predators such as dogs in excess of 50 pounds."

Dr. Sara Pizano of Miami-Dade Animal Services agreed with Dr. Stroud's findings and said she should have peeled back the fur in her necropsies, which would have revealed the puncture wounds.

[awoke_in_2003]

5. Maybe he was wearing...

those halloween vampire teeth when he killed them :)

[Ian David]

9. Maybe...

[awoke_in_2003]

10. I never did trust...

Harvey Korman:)

[truthisfreedom]

4. Read the article! He's INNOCENT!

[Rage for Order]

7. It's like the Duke Lacrosse "rape" case

Even though the guy is innocent, you just know he's really guilty

[TheMadMonk]

8. Admins, the rules are too harsh. Sometimes only a perjorative will do. /nt

[moobu2]

6. Just a note before this disappears. Not only were the charges dropped

but Tyler Weinman was completely exonerated. In fact, no crime even occurred.


The moral of this story is - please keep your pet cats indoors.