Crime & Safety

Women Left Weeks-Old Puppy in Hot Car While Going Out to Eat: Report

Police say the puppy was left without water and was having trouble breathing.

WATERBURY, CT — After leaving a weeks-old puppy in a hot car to go eat at Buffalo Wild Wings, two Torrington women were arrested after police were forced to break a window Tuesday, reports the Republican-American. Han Pham, 31, and Diem Lam, 26, were arrested after a woman told officers she heard a puppy yelping for help.

Police say they found the puppy under the driver's seat of a Honda Accord parked outside the restaurant. Police say the puppy didn't have water and it was having trouble breathing.

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