CLOVIS, N.M. (KRQE) – Clovis police are searching for a suspect who threw newborn puppies in a dumpster.
Police claimed a male drove down an alleyway in a brown SUV and threw a white plastic bag into a dumpster. They got calls that there were three newborn puppies in the bag crying with another one already dead.
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Animal control officers were able to get the three puppies into foster families. Clovis police are asking anyone with information to contact them.