POUGHKEEPSIE – The Brooklyn man, who
was captured on videotape beating his dog “Gizmo” in a Poughkeepsie
park in late December, turned himself into City of Poughkeepsie Police
on Tuesday.
Theophilus Burke, 37, had been identified as the man who brutalized his
dog, a two- to three-year-old Maltese.
A Dutchess County Court arrest warrant had been issued for Burke’s
arrest on an animal cruelty charge.
The dog was recovered in Brooklyn on January 29, checked out to be okay
and is being sheltered locally.
