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  Location: Clyde Street, Queens

  Posted for: February 28, 2023, 9:07 pm

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Man arrested for animal cruelty

February 28, 2023 Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz announced that Paul Verite has been charged with aggravated cruelty to animals and other crimes for allegedly repeatedly injuring his 10-week-old female Boston Terrier to the point the puppy could neither walk nor stand. A necropsy and review of medical records revealed that the puppy, named Espy, suffered excruciating pain before dying. District Attorney Katz said: “To see a trusting, defenseless creature brutalized the way this puppy was over the course of her short, tortured life makes you heartsick. The defendant will be held to account for the violence he is alleged to have inflicted upon this poor animal.” Verite, of Clyde Street, Queens, was arraigned on a complaint charging him with aggravated cruelty to animals and overdriving, torturing and injuring animals, and failure to provide sustenance. Judge Zoll ordered Verite to return to court April 24. If convicted, he faces up to two years in prison.