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May 3: A Middletown man faces charges after a puppy was found tied in a bag and abandoned in a park in Hamilton.
Harold Dean Lilly was arrested and booked into the Butler County Jail pending arraignment in Hamilton Municipal Court on charges of cruelty to a companion animal and animal abandonment, both misdemeanor charges, Sheriff Richard Jones said Friday. in the afternoon.
The puppy, a male, was found April 24 inside a completely closed drawstring bag at LJ Smith – North End Park, 1150 Joe Nuxhall Blvd. and was taken to Animal Friends Humane Society.