Man Arrested In Jurupa Valley Animal Shelter Break-In For 3 Impounded Dogs

CBS Los Angeles

September 20, 2022

A man was arrested on suspicion of breaking into a Jurupa Valley animal shelter and stealing three dogs, but his accomplice and the dogs remain at large.

Tymothy Burns Whitney, 21, was arrested Friday in connection with the break-in at the Western Riverside County/City Animal Shelter in Jurupa Valley. Authorities say Whitney and another man broke into the shelter last Wednesday and took the dogs, who had been impounded after a serious attack at a homeless encampment near Van Buren Boulevard, north of 56th Avenue.

In that incident, a dog described as a gray pit bull bit a man's arm, forcing the man to get medical help at a nearby hospital. Because the man was uncooperative and would not say which dog bit him, two gray pit bulls were impounded, along with a husky-German shepherd mix who was found in a crate without any food or water, according to John Welsh, spokesman for the Riverside County Department of Animal Services. All three are believed to be owned by a women known by the two men.

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