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Elderly Woman Loses Leg Following Vicious Dog Attack

Posted on July 11, 2011 by bonnicilawgroup

According to sources, the dog owners of two pit bulls who attacked a 75-year-old woman in San Diego entered a plea of not guilty on July 6.  The woman was forced to partially amputate her leg following the dog attack. According to district attorney’s spokeswoman Tanya Sierra, 39-year-old Alba Cornelio and her 19-year-old daughter are charged with two felony counts of having a vicious animal that causes injury and six other misdemeanor code violations.  The San Diego County Department of Animal Services arrested them both on June 6. The Cornelio women bred and sold pit bull puppies as well, according to Lt. Dan DeSousa.  The victim, Emoka Mendoza, lived next door.  The dogs escaped through a gap in the fence and attacked Mendoza as she was taking a newspaper outside to leave for her husband on a picnic table.  Mendoza had her left leg amputated below the knee and remains…
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Woman Injured In San Diego Dog Attack

Posted on July 5, 2011 by bonnicilawgroup

According to 10News.com in San Diego, a woman was attacked by two dogs in her Grant Hill neighborhood on June 24. The dog attack occurred as the victim was walking her own dogs, and a pit bull and a boxer escaped from their owner’s property. The woman sustained a minor personal injury after the two dogs nipped at her face as she was protecting her own dogs. She declined medical treatment and took one of her dogs to a veterinarian as a precaution. Christopher Nevares and James Hernandez were driving in the area and witnessed the attack. Nevares pulled over his car and took the victim and her dogs into his car. “From a block away we saw what seemed like a squabble of dogs and a hurt pedestrian,” Nevares told reporters. “I hit one dog on top of the skull,” said Hernandez. “It stopped, the other one did not. It kept on the little…
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Haz Mat Team Responds to Clean Up Pesticides Following Truck Accident

Posted on June 27, 2011 by bonnicilawgroup

According to ABC 7 News in California, a truck accident on June 20 caused delays on Interstate Highway 680 for several hours.  The truck accident occurred at approximately 8:15 a.m. in the bay area in California, just north of South Kind Road on the interstate. According to the California Highway Patrol, the commercial truck involved in the truck accident was carrying pesticides.  According to California Highway Patrol Officer John Short, approximately 25 gallons of pesticides were spilled in the truck accident.  A hazardous materials team was called out to the scene to clean up. The South King Road off-ramp, as well as three southbound lanes, were shut down while teams worked to clean up the scene of the truck accident.

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