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KAMAS, Summit County — A Kamas man has been arrested and accused of hitting his 3-month-old puppy on the head with a pool stick.
The man, 38, was booked into the Summit County Jail for investigation of torture of a companion animal. The incident allegedly happened in August but he was arrested on Friday.
The man's wife contacted the Summit County Sheriff's Office on Friday and provided deputies with a video showing him "striking their 3- month-old Belgian Malinois (named) Storm aggressively in the head. I observed (him) walking around a pool table, picking up a pool cue, and striking Storm aggressively in head. This strike caused Storm to scream out in pain and run away from (him)," a police booking affidavit states.
The video further showed the man chase the puppy into another room where "Storm could be heard screaming in pain," the deputy wrote.
A spokesman for the sheriff's office said when deputies were contacted to investigate the incident, they found multiple dogs in the home but none seemed to have serious injuries.
Since the alleged incident, the man has filed for divorce, according to court records, and his estranged wife filed for a protective order against him on Tuesday.
