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From Santa Ana Police X: "SANTA ANA, Calif. (April 23, 2025)—A 45-year-old man was arrested for animal cruelty involving cats. Over several weeks, the Santa Ana Police Department received multiple disturbing reports involving the suspected abuse and killing of cats in a local neighborhood. The reports alleged that a man had been luring neighborhood cats to and around his property, where he then harmed or killed them. The case was immediately assigned to a Police Investigative Specialist (PIS) for follow-up. During the investigation, Alejandro Oliveros Acosta (45) of Santa Ana was positively identified by several victims and witnesses as the suspect responsible for acts of animal cruelty. Based on the evidence gathered, detectives obtained a search warrant for Acosta’s residence.This morning, April 23, 2025, in collaboration with the Westminster Police Department and our Animal Control Division, detectives executed the search warrant at a home located in the 2300 block of W. Wilshire Avenue. Detectives collected evidence related to the case from inside the residence and took Acosta into custody."

Serial cat killer suspect arrested, potentially linked to a dozen-plus slayings, authorities say

An Orange County man who police believe killed more than a dozen neighborhood cats after luring them to his property has been arrested, according to authorities.

Veronica Ordaz Gonzalez and her brother Jose Ramos Santiago were awarded $800,000 in damages in March 2023 after Fresno County Sheriff's entered Ordaz Gonzalez's home and killed the family dog Scooby in June 2018. Fresno County recently appealed to the Fifth District Court of Appeals, who sided with the family and affirmed the judgement on Wednesday.

Shooting death of pet dog, Scooby, could cost Fresno County taxpayers $2 million

a photo of an elephant looking into the camera

Last two elephants to leave L.A. Zoo after years of controversy. But their new home is the subject of debate

From left to right is Richard Orea, David Duran, Emily Duran, and Luis Banuelos.

At Puppy Fades dog salon, the formerly incarcerated get a second chance

Endangered steelhead trout rescued from the Palisades fire area where relocated to the Arroyo Hondo Creek in Santa Barbara County.

Steelhead trout rescued from Palisades fire spawn in their new Santa Barbara County home

Voices

Contributor: Save the Earth’s ‘creepy-crawlies.’ Some of them just might save us

Sea lions, dolphins, now a whale: Ocean giant is latest victim of SoCal’s toxic algal bloom

Beautiful, deadly: Wolves stalk rural California

Fragile baby spider monkeys ‘ripped’ from mothers, brought to SoCal. Trafficker sentenced

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A female northern spotted owl catches a mouse on a stick held by Mark Higley, wildlife biologist for the Hoopa Valley Tribe.

Climate & Environment

Trump administration seeks to narrow Endangered Species Act by redefining ‘harm’

On Wednesday, the Trump administration proposed changing the definition of “harm” in the bedrock environmental law, which conservationists say will undermine protections for vulnerable animals.

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