Carl Kelley: Man Charged With Attacking Police Dog

Oct 3, 2011 at 1:20 pm

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Carl Kelley: This lowlife kicked a dog.

A 47-year-old St. Louis man is facing criminal charges after police say he brutally kicked a police dog.

Carl Kelley had been ordered out of his home in north St. Louis by police, who hoped to question him in connection with a burglary, according to a probable cause statement filed by St. Louis Circuit Attorney Jennifer Joyce. When Kelley failed to comply, the officer sent in his K9 associate, a police dog named Beil.

But when the officer found Kelley, he was kicking and hitting Beil. The circuit attorney's office has since charged Kelley with assault on a police animal, as well as one count of unlawful use of drug paraphernalia after officers found a "scorched" metal cylinder.

Crack pipe? Check. Ill treatment of a dog who's just doing the job he was trained to do? Check. Yep, we'd say that Carl Kelley sounds like your basic lowlife to us...

UPDATE: We hear from a police spokeswoman that K9 Officer Beil is A-OK.

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Sarah Fenske is the executive editor of the RFT and its sister papers. She is the former host of St. Louis on the Air and continues to host its Legal Roundtable, as well participating as an occasional panelist on Nine PBS' Donnybrook. She lives in St. Louis.

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