{"id":434,"date":"2013-02-22T14:32:07","date_gmt":"2013-02-22T18:32:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chescotimes.com\/?p=434"},"modified":"2013-02-22T14:32:07","modified_gmt":"2013-02-22T18:32:07","slug":"d-a-announces-charges-in-dog-killings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/?p=434","title":{"rendered":"D.A. announces charges in dog killings"},"content":{"rendered":"

72-year-old Chester Springs man will be prosecuted<\/strong><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

By Kathleen Brady Shea<\/span><\/strong>, Managing Editor, The Times<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

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Gabriel Pilotti faces criminal charges after allegedly killing his neighbors’ two dogs.<\/p><\/div>\n

A 72-year-old Chester Springs man faces criminal prosecution for fatally shooting his neighbor\u2019s two Bernese Mountain dogs, the District Attorney said Friday.<\/p>\n

District Attorney Tom Hogan said Gabriel Pilotti has been charged with cruelty to animals and recklessly endangering another person. \u201cThere was no justification for the killing of these two dogs,\u201d Hogan said. \u201cOur sympathies go out to the family and children who lost their beloved pets.\u201d<\/p>\n

According to the criminal complaint, police responded on Feb. 12 to Pilotti\u2019s property in West Vincent Township because two dogs had reportedly been shot. During an interview, Pilotti told police the dogs were pursuing his sheep in a penned area of his property. Police later determined that the dogs were not threatening the sheep and the second dog was shot as it was fleeing from the property.<\/p>\n

Hogan said a neighbor\u2019s house was \u201cin the line of fired directly behind where one of the dogs was shot.\u201d\u00a0 He said West Vincent Township Police did \u201can excellent job in relentlessly pursuing this case until they revealed the truth.\u201d<\/p>\n

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72-year-old Chester Springs man will be prosecuted By Kathleen Brady Shea, Managing Editor, The Times A 72-year-old Chester Springs man faces criminal prosecution for fatally shooting his neighbor\u2019s two Bernese Mountain dogs, the District Attorney said Friday. District Attorney Tom Hogan said Gabriel Pilotti has been charged with cruelty to animals and recklessly endangering another […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,7],"tags":[156,287,654],"class_list":["post-434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-featured","tag-chester-county-district-attorney-tom-hogan","tag-gabriel-pilotti","tag-west-vincent-township-police"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=434"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}