WHITE PLAINS – A 34-year-old man was sentenced on Thursday to eight months in the Westchester County Jail after he pled guilty to killing a dog whose remains were found burned in a Greenburgh back yard in July.
Ian De Los Reyes, a fugitive from North Carolina and Utah where charges are pending, was indicted by a Westchester County grand jury in August charging him with aggravated cruelty to animals and tampering with physical evidence, both as felonies.
State Supreme Court Justice Barry Warhit in White Plains sentenced De Los Reyes to two terms to run concurrently.
On Saturday, July 13, Greenburgh Police arrested De Los Reyes along with another man, Danilo Tolentino, after officers found the charred remains of a dog in Tolentino’s backyard and evidence of the dog’s killing inside the house.
Tolentino reported the death of the dog to police on Saturday morning.
It is alleged that De Los Reyes stabbed and killed the black Labrador retriever and then burned the body in a fire pit some time Friday night.
The dog belonged to Tolentino’s daughter, who did not live at that residence.
