Middletown man charged after puppy found inside bag at Hamilton park
May 3—A Middletown man is facing charges after a puppy was found tied up in a bag and abandoned at a park in Hamilton.
Harold Dean Lilly was arrested and booked into the Butler County Jail awaiting arraignment in Hamilton Municipal Court for cruelty to a companion animal and abandoning animals, both misdemeanor charges, Sheriff Richard Jones reported Friday afternoon.
The puppy, a male, was found April 24 inside a drawstring bag pulled all the way closed at L.J. Smith — North End Park, 1150 Joe Nuxhall Blvd. and was taken to the Animal Friends Humane Society.
