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August 18, 2008
Trial in death of police K-9 starts for officer
Dog died after being left inside patrol SUV
The Arizona Republic
Just over a year after Sgt. Tom Lovejoy left his police dog sleeping in his patrol SUV, the Chandler officer goes on trial today hoping to prove that Bandit's death that hot August day was a tragic accident, not animal cruelty.
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Thirteen hours after he first left the dog, Lovejoy returned to the SUV and discovered the 5-year-old Belgian Malinois dead.
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he simply forgot the dog and was so emotionally distraught when he found Bandit dead that night he couldn't figure out how the dog got into the vehicle.
"Unless you know Tom and know his love for animals and how much he loved that guy, you just can't understand," Carolynn Lovejoy said.
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Posted by sue at August 18, 2008 12:21 PM