Dog Now In Custody. Could Be Destroyed. Woman Was Trying To Save Yorkie.
BY: 24/7 CRIME DESK | BocaNewsNow.com
PALM BEACH COUNTY, FL (BocaNewsNow.com) (Copyright © 2024 MetroDesk Media, LLC) — Living up to its breed’s reputation, a pit bull attacked and critically injured a woman in West Palm Beach. The West Palm Beach Police Department issued this statement to BocaNewsNow.com about what happened, and the status of the investigation:
A Miami woman is hospitalized after she was attacked by a Pit bull while walking her Yorkie Monday evening in a shopping center parking lot. At 5:01 p.m. March 11, West Palm Beach police received several 911 calls saying a woman was being attacked by a Pit bull in the parking lot at 2100 45th Street. The first arriving officer found a woman clutching a tiny Yorkie with severe bite wounds to both arms. The officer took the Yorkie from her, checked to make sure the dog wasn’t injured, and placed it in the back of his patrol car. He then administered first aid to the injured woman, including applying a tourniquet to her left arm to control the bleeding.
The victim, Liliana Marbles, 35, of Miami, told police she was walking with her one-and-a-half year-old dog Pochita to 7-Eleven to get a drink, when a Pit bull about 30 feet away charged towards them. As she grabbed Pochita off the ground out of the lunging dog’s path, Marbles was knocked to the ground as the dog latched onto her. A bystander eventually intervened and kicked the Pit bull to stop the attack and called 911. The owner of the Pit bull left the scene on a bicycle with her dog in tow and was quickly intercepted by police down the street. She was identified as Amanda Bethea, 38, of Clewiston.
Bethea told police her two-year-old dog, Diamond, was on a leash that “slipped out of her hand.” Marbles, however, told police that Bethea “was holding a leash that was not attached to the dog’s collar,” at the time of the attack.
West Palm Beach Fire Department paramedics took Marbles to St. Mary’s Medical Center where she underwent surgery for her injuries earlier in the week and remains hospitalized, pending another surgery. Palm Beach County Animal Care and Control impounded the Pit bull, where it will be quarantined for 10 days as they conduct their investigtion.
BocaNewsNow.com notes that Pit bulls and other identified “dangerous dogs” are prohibited in many communities in Boca Raton, Delray Beach, and Boynton Beach. If you believe a Pitbull or similar dog exists in your community, advise your management company, Palm Beach County Animal Countrol, or — if you feel threatened — the police.
I worked in a trauma ER and I could not count how many people came in from being attacked by Pit Bulls! They even attack their owners and the owner’s children! Pit Bulls and their OWNERS are a menace to society. Put that killing machine DOWN now. I volunteer to do it too
The Pittie lovers standard line is “it’s not the dog it’s the owner”
That’s so ridiculous/ pit bulls cause most fatalities and serious injuries bc they were bred to fight.
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