Woman allegedly caught on video running over Blackey the puppy is arrested by Santa Ana police

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Set us as preferred Santa Ana Police arrested a woman Thursday who appeared to deliberately run over a 9-month-old puppy in a disturbing surveillance camera video.Hahn Nguyen, 75, was booked into Santa Ana jail on suspicion of animal cruelty and animal abandonment.She admitted to owning the 9-month-old pit bull, “Blackey,” and that she abandoned him, police said.She told detectives she left the puppy at a park because it had been annoying her boyfriend by biting on his shoes and belongings, according to department spokesperson Natalie Garcia.

Nguyen had told her boyfriend she thought the dog was run over but did not admit to running over the animal herself, Garcia said.On Sept.8, Animal Services officers responded to 900 W.

Park Lane, where Blackey was found dead.A neighbor told officers that she believed a woman intentionally killed the puppy with a minivan and, after canvassing the area, police found a surveillance video that corroborated the report.The officers shared the shocking recording Wednesday in hopes of identifying the driver, whose license plate cannot be discerned in the clip.The video shows a woman emerging from a Honda Odyssey parked at 926 W.

Park Lane at 9:15 a.m.on Sept.

8 and laying kibble on the ground near the driver’s-side door of the car.She places the puppy on the ground, where it rushes to eat the food, and then gets back into the minivan and drives forward, pinning the animal under her back left tire for around 15 seconds.The woman then drives northbound on Lowell Street, leaving the fatally wounded puppy on the side of the road.Officers were subsequently able to use automated license plate readers to identify the minivan and two addresses, one in Anaheim and another in Fountain Valley, that were associated with it, Garcia said.

They knocked on the door of the Anaheim residence Thursday mor...