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A girl's beloved dog, a grisly nightmare
Crystal Brown's therapy dog disappeared. Later, the teen received his severed head gift-wrapped like a present.
By Mary Lynn Smith, Star Tribune
Last update: March 15, 2007 – 12:07 AM
Renee Jones , Star Tribune
Crystal Brown plays with her new puppy.
Crystal Brown's world was turned upside down a month ago when Chevy, her 4-year-old Australian shepherd mix, didn't come home.
"I told him everything and he never shared any of my secrets," said Crystal, 17, who has had some troubled times in her young life. Chevy was her therapy dog, and she leaned on him for comfort and support.
Two weeks ago, a gift-wrapped box was left at the house where she lives with her grandmother in St. Paul's Rice Street area. Inside the box, Crystal was horrified to find her dog's head.
"This was so cruel," Crystal said Wednesday. "This is one sick, twisted person."
The incident is considered so shocking that the Humane Society of the United States announced Wednesday that it was offering a reward of up to $2,500 for information leading to an arrest and conviction.
Homicide investigators are looking into the case because of the "implied" terroristic threat, St. Paul Police Sgt. Jim Gray said.
"This was extraordinarily heinous," said Dale Bartlett, the Humane Society's deputy manager for animal cruelty issues. "I deal with hundreds and hundreds of cruelty cases each year. When I read about this case, it took my breath away. It's horrible."
This case, Bartlett said, is far worse than a recent episode in Oshkosh, Wis., where a 49-year-old man decapitated two of his kittens because "they were annoying."
Sending the dog's head to the teenager was a malicious act, Bartlett said. "That level of depravity is beyond belief."
Shirley Brown, Crystal's grandmother, said that Chevy wandered off after she let him out one night in mid-February.
'It was just me and him'
Crystal peppered the neighborhood with "missing" posters, and went door to door with two photos of Chevy in hopes that someone had spotted him. She rode the bus countless times to the St. Paul animal shelter and called there "thousands of times," she said.
"I felt empty," Crystal said. "I couldn't talk to anyone. He was my dog. It was just me and him."
Then Shirley Brown came home one day and found a box wrapped in red paper on her front steps, with batteries taped to the box. "Congratulations Crystal," the note said. "This side up. Batteries included."
Shirley Brown placed the box on her granddaughter's bedroom dresser. "I was surprised and excited," Crystal said. "I thought it was a gift from my cousin."
She tore off the paper and ripped open the box. Inside, she found valentine candy and a black garbage bag. And then she saw her dog's face.
Crystal screamed and ran to the kitchen to find her grandmother: "Is this my dog, Grandma? No! That's not my dog? Is it my dog?"
An isolated incident
Gray said that investigators believe the case is an isolated incident and that the suspect knows the family. "We don't know what the motive would be," Gray said. "It's a terrible thing to do to someone's pet."
Anyone with information regarding this case is asked to call St. Paul police at 651-266-5659.
Chevy, Crystal said, was the best friend she ever had.
"He was more patient than any person I ever met. That dog waited for years for me to get myself together," said Crystal, who began to cry.
"That dog didn't care what I did, what I didn't do ... what anyone did to me. He didn't care about any of that. He just wanted to love me the way I loved him."
Crystal has a new puppy now, another Australian shepherd that she's named Diesel. The puppy's no Chevy. Not yet, anyway.
"Hopefully, he'll be my best friend," Crystal said. Hopefully, he will be my guide through life."
Mary Lynn Smith • 651-298-1550 • mlsmith@startribune.com
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It is going to be a very long hot summer.
Too bad, mayor Coleman does not value police officers as he has not hired to keep up with the population needs of the city.
When the thugs from Minneapolis start coming over here it sure will be nice to know that Coleman has left us so wide open.
Coleman has his body guard, all we have is to call 911 and wait and wait until help comes. The next time I am mugged, I will tell the thugs to wait until help comes.
Maybe I will get a 357 or a good old 45 auto. The thugs will not get me twice.
Thanks mayor Coleman for not thinking of us.
The gangs have been coming all winter. Talk to the few landlords who still have property. The people that have been calling about vacancies are from Minneapolis.
Oh great, here they come.
I had better get over to Joe's and pick up an equalizer and a box shells to go with it.
You know Joe's is not in St. Paul anymore. There is no place in St. Paul where a sportsman can get a shotgun or 22. Jay Beatenoff made sure us sportsmen could not purchase a rifle in St. Paul. Us law abiding citizens are left without a place to but a rifle for hunting rabbits.
Also thanks to liberal Jay Beatenoff, Kathy "Lame" Lantry and Lee "Moon Beam" Helgren for leaving us wide open to the gangs from Minneapolis and for preventing us sportsmen from being able to purchase a rifle in St. Paul for hunting.
Sorry, I ment buy not but in:
Us law abiding citizens are left without a place to buy a rifle for hunting rabbits.
Still recovering from the thug that wacked me.
Where was Beatenoff, Lantry and Helgen when the thugs were beating me down. They were all safe in their city hall offices away from reality trying to think up some more liberal shuff to lay on us for our own good.
Now leave Lantry out of this. She was legitimately busy "getting complaints in her office!"
8:15
Did you really say 'safe in their city hall offices"?
Isn't that the same place where Jay got his ass kicked by his mistress?
Don't seem so safe to me.
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So recognizing we are bracing for a brutal summer, why not support HF49? The police cheif himself beleives it will be a great tool against some of these gangbangers who come over to our neighborhoods from elsewhere just to start or continue trouble.
I'm not seeing the negative part of that.
It appears no one actually is reflecting on what the topic here actually is. According to theorists that go way back animal torture is an early warning sign of a what could become a vey dangerous individual. My personal feelings are this person is already a very sick and dangerous individual to do something so horrible to a girls pet, then present it to her gift wrapped makes it even worse! And this individual is walking the streets of St.Paul, who knows what will go through this persons sick mind to do next.
Nancy
Another way society handles issues with children, which has been known to cause violence is to drug the children rather than work with the issues by means of mentoring and/or programs that focus directly on the childs issues and future.I found the following information as it relates to drugging children in todays society and the effects.
A riveting well documentary (that took 4 years to make), The Drugging of Our Children by Gary Null (1 hr- 43 minutes) focuses on the rampant prescribing of mind-altering drugs for children and the harm they sometimes produce. The video begins with Corey Baadsgaard, who in April 2001, took a gun to school and held the class hostage while he was hallucinating under the influence of the antidepressant, Paxil. The GlaxoSmithKline drug that has been the subject of five BBC Panorama investigative reports and a lawsuit charging fraud by New York State Attorney General.
Children are being prescribed these drugs mostly on the basis of exhibiting 6 of 9 traits such as fidgeting in class, not paying attention to the teacher. In the U.S. it is estimated that between 6 and 7 million children are prescribed a variety of toxic psychotropic drugs--that cause some children to hallucinate. Some children are committing violent crimes while in a drug induced manic or psychotic state. Others are attempting suicide.
Nancy
Nancy is right in many ways. That's the easy way out. They tried to do that with my child, but thankfully, he had a good kindergarten teacher who used to be in special education. She told me that he was a boy, pure and simple. Nothing more.
We took precautions at home,limited TV and video games on school days, and his test scores soared!
Thuggery begins at home. If a young child, especially male, see another grown male (or any other male) in the same home bullying everyone at home, or elsewhere, he will think that is how it's done.
I don't know how you stop this, but Thuggery does begin at home.
Me? I was raised by a single mom. I've worked since I was 15. I'm now 37. I had no strong male example, except for one, and he died before I was 12. And that was only for a few years. But the impact he had on me? Lasted forever. I will always consider him my dad.
I spent a year and a half as a single mom (I should add, I had family to support me during this time) and it was harder than I ever imagined. But my kids came first. I made sure they were taken care of, otherwise, I had to take a sick day from work.
Did that cost me? Yes. Did my kids benefit? Yup.
I don't know how we can dig our way out of this problem. Summer is gonna be bad here in St. Paul. Especially here on the Eastside. All the Chicago thugs are already showing their asses. It's not gonna be good.
It does begin at home.
If you have a child, that is your first obligation in life is to give said child a good example in how to live. I'm not a saint, I'll be the first to admit.
But my 2 Things know that, and love me anyway. Plus, they both do well in school, so far anyway.
I'm sorry to be so long. But Thuggery does begin at home. Blame not the child today who grows up to be the Thug of tomorrow.
Blame the no-good parent (s).
You're going to be suprosed to find out just how hot and how long the summer will be for some!
More to follow.
Why the U.S. locks up more people than any other country
by Nicole Colson
Socialist Worker
WE ARE often told that the U.S. is the “freest” nation on the planet. But to judge from the U.S. prison system, the exact opposite is the case. The U.S. incarcerates more of its people than any other country on the planet--not just proportionally, but in absolute terms.
A Justice Department report released in December revealed that a record 7 million people--one in every 32 adults in the U.S.--was either behind bars, on probation or on parole at the end of 2005.
Though the U.S. has just 5 percent of the world’s population, it has an incredible 25 percent of the world’s prison population--2.2 million people. Since 1970, the U.S. incarceration rate has increased by 700 percent, and that number is still rising.
“After a 700 percent increase in the U.S. prison population between 1970 and 2005, you’d think the nation would finally have run out of lawbreakers to put behind bars,” states a February report by the Pew Charitable Trusts. Evidently not.
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WHO WINDS up in prison? The answer is African Americans and Latinos, most of all. They are fully 60 percent of the U.S. prison population today.
If current trends continue, one out of every three Black men and one of every six Latino men born in the U.S. today will go to prison at some point in their lifetime. Overall, in 2005, African Americans were 40 percent of all inmates--three times larger than their proportion in the U.S. population.
As sociologist Loïc Wacquant wrote in a 2001 article, “The rate of incarceration for African Americans has soared to astronomical levels unknown in any other society, not even the Soviet Union at the zenith of the Gulag or South Africa during the acme of the violent struggles over apartheid.”
Immigrants and women are also increasingly ending up behind bars in the U.S. According to statistics released by the Justice Department last year, between 1995 and 2003, convictions for immigration offenses rose by 394 percent. Between 1980 and 2005, the number of women in state and federal prisons jumped by 873 percent--from 12,300 to 107,500.
Poverty has always been the defining feature of who is imprisoned in the richest country on earth. Today is no exception. As of 2005, approximately 37 percent of women and 28 percent of men in prison had monthly incomes of less than $600 prior to their arrest.
The dramatic rise in the U.S. prison population over the past several decades can be attributed to several factors--in particular, the “war on drugs” and mandatory-minimum sentencing laws.
While politicians claim long prison sentences are reserved for the “worst of the worst,” the reality is that a huge number of people in prison today are nonviolent drug offenders. In 1980, there were 40,000 drug offenders in prison or jail. Today, that number stands at half a million.
“Most of the drug offenders in prison are not the ‘kingpins’ of the drug trade,” states Mark Mauer of the Sentencing Project. “Indeed, the low-level sellers who are incarcerated are rapidly replaced on the streets by others seeking economic gain.”
In addition, inflexible sentencing laws--like California’s “three-strikes” law, which mandates life in prison for three felony convictions, and so-called “truth-in-sentencing” laws that are designed to keep people behind bars for the full length of their sentences--have resulted in terrible punishments.
According to the Sentencing Project, one in every 11 people in prison is now serving a life sentence--a quarter of them without parole. A number of these sentences are for nonviolent drug crimes, minor robberies or thefts, or unwittingly aiding more serious offenders.
Santos Reyes, for example, has spent more than six years in California’s Folsom State prison after he received a sentence of 26 years to life for a third strike offense--the “crime” of taking a drivers’ license test under a false identity for his cousin, who could not speak English.
Gladys Wilson was a victim of truth-in-sentencing laws. In 1978, she pled guilty to aiding and abetting an armed robbery in Michigan, her first offense. She was 31 years old, and the mother of an 11-year-old daughter.
According to the Sentencing Project, “Gladys had no prior criminal record...[She] was sentenced to life in prison with the assumption by everyone involved in the case that she would serve no more than 10 years.” Instead, “action by the parole board was delayed until 1992, by which time a newly adopted policy of ‘life means life’ resulted in denial of parole.” Gladys wasn’t released until 2005--when she was 58 years old.
Children are also affected. According to Human Rights Watch, as of 2005, at least 2,225 people who were under 18 at the time of their alleged crimes were serving life without parole sentences in U.S prisons.
“Troy L.,” was 15 when he murdered his abusive father. He was sentenced to life without parole. In a letter to Human Rights Watch, he revealed the depth of his despair: “I would go to the most dangerous parts of Afghanistan or Israel, or jump on the first manned mission to Mars...[I]f the state were to offer me some opportunity to end my life doing some good, rather than a slow-wasting plague to the world, it would be a great mercy to me.”
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THE PRISON industry may be bad for people, but it’s certainly good for business.
Private prison companies operate in about three-quarters of U.S. states. According to a recent CorpWatch report by Deepa Fernandes, the Nashville-based Corrections Corporation of America (CCA), America’s largest private-prison operator, announced that revenues had increased to almost $300 million for the second quarter of 2005.
In theory, prisons are supposed to be places where prisoners are rehabilitated--but they are far more likely to serve as human warehouses.
For example, in 2001, Canyon Thixton, then 17 years old, endured 58 days in Wisconsin’s “Supermax” high-security prison without a working toilet. Thixton was given toothpaste only twice a week. He had no clothing other than a gown, no soap, pillow, mattress or blanket. He was strapped to his cell for hours at a time and beaten by guards.
Tragically, such conditions are not unusual. A 2003 Human Rights Watch report estimates that between 200,000 and 300,000 prisoners in the U.S. suffer from mental disorders, including schizophrenia, bipolar disorder and major depression. Approximately 70,000 are psychotic on any given day, the report says.
“Yet across the nation, many prison mental health services are woefully deficient, crippled by understaffing, insufficient facilities, and limited programs,” it adds. “In the most extreme cases,” says the report, “conditions are truly horrific: mentally ill prisoners locked in segregation with no treatment at all; confined in filthy and beastly hot cells; left for days covered in feces they have smeared over their bodies; taunted, abused or ignored by prison staff; given so little water during summer heat waves that they drink from their toilet bowls.”
Few prisons have adequate treatment to deal with prisoners’ drug or alcohol addictions. And according to Phil Gasper’s article “Prisoners of Ideology” in the International Socialist Review, despite the fact that two-thirds of California prisoners read below a ninth-grade level and more than half are functionally illiterate, just 6 percent of the state’s prisoners are in academic classes, and only 5 percent are in vocational training.
Former inmates are punished even after they are released. “Laws deny welfare payments, veterans benefits and food stamps to anyone in detention for more than 60 days,” writes Loïc Wacquant. “The Work Opportunity and Personal Responsibility Act of 1996 further banishes most ex-convicts from Medicaid, public housing, Section 8 vouchers and related forms of assistance.
Bill Clinton, in particular, “proudly launched ‘unprecedented federal, state, and local co-operation as well as new, innovative incentive programs’...to weed out any inmate who still received benefits,” writes Wacquant.
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IN A different kind of society--a socialist society based on meeting people’s needs, instead of making profits--whole categories of “crimes” would simply cease to exist.
Immigration violations, for example, would no longer land people in prison in a society that recognized that no human being is illegal. Likewise, drug use would no longer be considered a crime. The money and resources currently spent to incarcerate those suffering from addiction could be put to use providing free treatment instead.
More generally, a society that made its priority meeting people’s needs would attack the roots of much crime by working to end poverty and alienation.
Of course, crime would not be magically end overnight. “The point,” however, as Paul D’Amato writes in The Meaning of Marxism, “is that, under socialism, society’s surplus wealth would be collectively used to enhance the welfare of all, rather than that of a small group. Why would I steal what was freely available? Such a society may seem too utopian. But as [American socialist James] Cannon said: ‘What’s absurd is to think that this madhouse is permanent and for all time.’”
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Dear 10:20 PM
You are 100% correct about keeping the subject thread on topic, but please use different language that is more appropriate. I find your need for swearing to make your point is really not necessary.
Thank you.
Go on over to St Paul Issues Forum....they'll sugar coat it and give you all the political correctness you want.
12:50 -
Go wash your mouth out, stop swearing, you're making me nervous while I shave your mother's back.
Well put 12:50, Couldn't have done better myself!
Splendid.
Carry on my man!
Talk about getting OFF THE TOPIC!!! Look in the mirror before you speak!
Bobby are you OK: Topic Animal Lovers: www.sharon4council.blogspot.com scrool to my Rottweiller Maddy Peace or www.cobrashar.blogspot.com Hope you run for an elective office.Peace Brother Bob PS 3 years ago the cops broke into house on eastside, poisoned Maddy cost me over 1,200 at Feist Animal Hospital.......
5:02 is correct, swearing really does not make the man or woman it only shows how little you know.
12:50 you are really showing you are a bad guy by swearing under an anonymous post. Oh, my! You are really big you can say the f-word. This really shows your intelligence. If you were a real man you would post your name. Sort of hiding behind your mama’s apron strings.
A real man does not need to swear to get people to listen to them, as their actions speak volumes.
As they say simple things for simple minds.
You're absoloutly right 4:41, I am not anywhere near as inteligent or educated as others, Which might be a blessing)and I realize I am not being the "man" that other people are , but at least I am open about it and am willing to let the others accept me for who and what I am.
I am the person who used the word "Bullshit" in case you don't remember me.
I also know the f--- word, but use it sparingly for special occasions.
Go fuck yourself you pompus, arrogant asshole. Despite my language, the people here will stand by me (in spite of my shortcomings)any day over you because they know exactly where they stand with me and I unlike you are not trying to sell people some BS "bill of goods" by pretneding to be something I am not.
As far as being a "real man" goes, I'm more interested in being a real person and people admire me for it.....even in settings where I am not anonymous.
Sounds like 5:02 has some issues....
May I suggest any one of our fine treatment centers, Mr. Angrypants.
To 6:42
Yes, I do not think a person has to swear to make their point. I do have a problem with your language on this blog.
If you are so full of yourself that you feel you have to use that inappropriate language when the thread line is about a girl whose dog was killed by some sick individual, I do not see the connection. Who are you trying to impress.
It seems people like you are the first person to complaign if someone says a word you do not like. Why don't you have some pride in yourself. Would you use this language around your mother? She would slap you silly if she heard you using such inappropriate language.
All I am asking is to clean up your language.
That is all.
Did I get hi-jacked ot St Paul Issues Forum or what????????
Who are these so overly senstitive people? It kinda creeps ya out.
A long hot summer just got cooler. Philander Jenkins, the posterboy for CUAPB and Michelle Gross was just charged with a double murder on Minneapolis' northside. You all remember Philander, he said he was raped in the Hennepin County Jail and (wrongfully) accused a good cop of a crime. Hey Bob, didn't you extoll the virtues of CUAPB here at ademocracy?
Dear Mr. Knight (2:15 PM)
This your mother here, shut your pie hole before I wash your mouth out with soap.
Wait until yopu get home "LITTLE BOY."
Your loving mother,
Moma Knight
That's kinda tacky!
St. Paul / Admirer arrested in dog's slaying
Grandmother feared girl's friend, 24, was behind beheading
BY MARA H. GOTTFRIED
Pioneer Press
Article Last Updated: 03/22/2007 11:10:13 PM CDT
A man arrested Thursday on suspicion of beheading a 17-year-old St. Paul girl's dog and sending it to her in a gift-wrapped box was a spurned admirer, the teen's grandmother said.
Anthony A. Gomez and Crystal Brown were friends, but the 24-year-old man wanted to be her boyfriend, said Shirley Brown, Crystal's grandmother. She said she had suspected Gomez killed the girl's dog since the head appeared in February.
One clue for Shirley Brown was the candy hearts inside the box with the dog's head.
"I thought it was a sign that he loved her and she hurt him because she didn't want to be his friend anymore," Brown said. "He knew that killing her dog was the thing that would hurt her worst of all, it would tear her heart out."
St. Paul police executed a search warrant and arrested Gomez on Thursday. He is in the Ramsey County jail on suspicion of terroristic threats. Gomez hasn't been charged, but a sergeant investigating the case said he hopes Gomez will be charged with animal cruelty.
Crystal was "elated" when she heard an arrest had been made, her grandmother said.
A few weeks after Crystal lost her 4-year-old dog, Chevy, in St. Paul, a gift-wrapped box showed up on her front stoop in the city's North End. She opened it and found the dog's head inside.
The teen was devastated, especially because she has had a tumultuous life and considered the Australian blue heeler and shepherd mix a "therapy dog" she could talk to about her problems, Shirley Brown
said. She got her granddaughter a new puppy after Chevy was killed.
Since the story of Chevy's beheading appeared in media outlets worldwide, cards and gifts have poured in from Russia, Canada and "just about every state in the United States," Brown said.
Brown said she has known Gomez since he was a child and he used to play with her grandchildren. He lives about two blocks from her home.
Crystal and Gomez had been hanging out since the fall, but he did things that Brown said concerned her, including sitting on Crystal so she couldn't leave his home.
Gomez was convicted of fifth-degree assault in 2001 and second-degree assault with a dangerous weapon, causing substantial bodily harm, in 2005, according to the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension. Both cases occurred in St. Paul.
He has been arrested in the past on suspicion of domestic assault and disorderly conduct.
Studies have drawn links between violence against humans and animals. In about 88 percent of homes where children had been abused and there were pets, animals also were abused, according to American Humane Association.
A study of women seeking shelter at a safe house found 71 percent of pet owners had partners who had threatened to hurt or kill the animal, the association said.
Mara H. Gottfried covers St. Paul public safety. She can be reached at mgottfried@pioneerpress.com or 651-228-5262.
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