A Valencia man was sentenced Wednesday to one year in county jail for taping a cat’s paws together.
Deputy District Attorney Jeffrey Greenberg said Tyler Scott Vest, 23, also was sentenced to three years formal probation and ordered to complete 24 hours of animal cruelty counseling, the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office announced.
The defendant and his girlfriend Kylie Stringer, 27, of Canyon Country, both entered no contest pleas on Jan. 13, the date of their arraignment.
Vest and Stringer pleaded no contest to one misdemeanor count of cruelty to an animal and Vest also pleaded no contest to a felony count of possession for sale of a controlled substance, heroin.
Stringer was sentenced on March 2 to three years of informal probation and was ordered to complete a six-month drug treatment program, 15 days of Caltrans service and 24 hours of animal cruelty counseling.
Both defendants also are banned from owning, possessing or having direct contact with animals for five years and they had to forfeit their cat.
Both defendants were approached by Los Angeles County sheriff deputies after they were observed inside a vehicle parked near Sand Canyon and Soledad Canyon roads late at night on Jan. 9. Deputies conducted a narcotics investigation and recovered heroin from inside the vehicle, along with narcotic paraphernalia, the prosecutor said.
Also recovered from the car was a cat inside a pet carrier container. All four paws of the cat had been duct-taped and were further tied and bound together with additional duct tape, the prosecutor added.
The case was investigated by the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department, Santa Clarita Station.
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60 Comments
One year. Your kidding me. You really think he will learn a lesson. One year is a joke.
We should drop him off to Isis. He can get some good torture
How sick. How could anyone do this Ro an animal.
Only 1 year? What a jerk!
We should ship him off to Isis. Sitting in jail one year is a joke.
What about the woman that was with him? Didn’t she get any time for this as well?
POS people harming animals!
Yeah and he only gets one year in jail!! It should’ve been at least 3 years!!
Lucille Lay Pratt BC if they really BEAT an Animal they should get 10+years!!!!!!
I don’t think she got any time, I think she just got probation. But she’s a piece of garbage and I hope her name is smeared all over this city as being the piece of crap that she is.
Kelsey Orefice I totally agree with you!!!!!
I hope they tape his feet together while he is serving his time. (:
Actually they’re gonna spread them apart ?
Bet he gets out early too.
Good. What a ?head. Really? Let’s do that to him while he sits in the clink, costing us money.
I have ZERO tolerance for this!!
Id break this POS.
#jailjustice
Not long enough ?
Let’s tape his arms & legs!!
Poor baby!!!
He should have his hands and feet tied together and wear a sign that says he abuses animals!
Not a bad idea. I like it. Heartless!!
Why would someone do this? Just to be cruel?! I just don’t get it.
I just don’t get it. I wonder what their excuse was.
Yay… Now tape his Hands and feet
Degenerate loser
He won’t even do 3 months thanks to ab 109
Death to him and anyone that has allowed this to happen.
Hope he drops his soap in the jail shower.
Wtf wasnt it electrical tape too?
Good!
Same guy stole the tip jar at Jamba Juice in Valencia in 2012. My son was working there at the time and he ran after him and knocked him off his bike. Then another Co worker held him down till sheriff’s got there. He will never be rehabilitated.
Was it The Juice?
wow, what a piece of crap.
First class loser!
HAHAHA jerk. Maybe somebody will tape your ankles together in there
Dirty pig I hope you get what’s coming in prison because one year from now your dirty ass will be back on the street and that is unacceptable
They should tape his hands together. Sick person!!
Jayden Combs-Susser
Who’s rescuing the kitty?
When the story first broke I called and was told the cat was taken to the shelter in Lancaster. I also would like to know if he still needs a home.
Jorge Ravelo
Drugs are bad
One lousy year. I say we tape his hands and feet together and drop him off on in the desert.
Sounds good to me. He will never be a productive member of society.
i think i love you…lol
Agreed!! He’s a total loser. He needs to just go away forever.
He will do 6 months.
Less
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What a beautiful, precious little kitty. Breaks my heart. I wanna take that angel home.
I’m available for adoption.
You nut!
They should tape his hands and feet together while serving his time.
good! stupid losers.
A year is not long enough!
Does anyone know if the cat has been adopted!
The kitty got lots of adoptions offers, will be fine -but too many others are euthenized each month, wish we could get more adopted, too many don’t want to go to a shelter, but will adopt from a pet center and so on.
— As for this scumbag, he deserves even more time BUT how much is it costing us to keep him locked up? Isn’t there some really unpleasant but helpful community svc. he could do in addition to the 400hrs.? Like fight fires on the frontlines and clean public toilets?
— I recall reading ine original story that he and g.f. were doing drugs @the Vons parking lots @Sand Canyon and apparently the cat wanted out of its carrier, probably hungry and scared poor thing.
Needs drug treatment or he’ll be out doing it again.
#ThanksObama
Give this loser more than a year. Throw Obama & Hillary in too. Give Bernie the role of distributing the wealth of food in prison
he is a jerk I want to cry??