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February
8, 2006
Police
arrested Vincent Jerome Kohn, 48, from The Anointed Church of God
about 4:30 p.m. Sunday after a couple's complaint about catching
a man abandoning several dogs in a popular dumping area near their
home on Turknett Road.
Westside residents Debbie and Robert Tiencken confronted Kohn and
called
police, who helped retrieve two of six dumped puppies the couple
wasn't able to recover at first, according to police and the witnesses.
"He didn't even want to touch the dogs because he had on a
pair of latex gloves like you wash dishes with. ... He was actually
slinging them into the woods," Debbie Tiencken recalled.
She said the man kept asking her and her husband not to call police
and then finally picked up one of the dogs before he drove off.
But the couple got the tag information on the man's truck.
Police then traced the tag to a residence about a block away. Once
there, officers said they found a malnourished mother dog chained
in the backyard along with at least four or five other malnourished
puppies running around.
Animal Control officials took all the dogs and police charged Kohn,
of the 6200 block of 118th Street, with a felony offense of animal
cruelty and a misdemeanor charge of abandoning a sick animal to
die.
"It
doesn't matter who he is or what his position is," Debbie Tiencken
said. "Nobody should do that."
Kohn got out of jail on $10,000 bail Monday, records show. No one
answered the phone at his home Tuesday or returned a message left
at his church on West Church and Cleveland streets, where the sign
out front reads: "Knowing God is not only seeing his works
but also learning his ways."
bridget.murphy@jacksonville.com, (904) 359-4161
Copyright
2006 Florida Times-Union
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