NEW KEN POLICE CHARGE WOMAN WITH ANIMAL CRUELTY

Police in New Kensington last Thursday charged a local woman with abandoning a one-year-old dog in a cage and then removing the corpse before police could retrieve it.  The Trib reports that 39-year-old Desiree Marcoux has not been arraigned yet on charges of aggravated cruelty to animals and other crimes for an incident in July.  Her daughter, Mahala Collar told police she found their dog, Pico, dead when she went back to her residence to grab some of her belongings.  Collar said Marcoux had told her a month or two before that she had given Pico to a friend and that he was being taken care of while Marcoux was staying with a new boyfriend. Collar told police she believes Marcoux abandoned Pico.  The dog was found dead in the kitchen, and when they went to retrieve the dog, the dog was gone and the kitchen was cleaned.