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Georgia Man Accused of Capturing Neighborhood Cats and Feeding Them to His Pit Bulls

Tye Hilmo is shown Thursday, Sept. 20, 2007, in this photo provided by the Gwinnett County Sheriff's Department via the The Journal & Constitution. According to authorities, Hilmo, 21, captured neighborhood cats and kittens and fed them live to his pit bulls. He is charged with aggravated cruelty to animals. (AP Photo/Sheriff's Department via the The Journal & Constitution, Tye Hilmo) The Associated Press

LAWRENCEVILLE, Ga. Sep 20, 2007 (AP)

A man captured neighborhood cats and kittens and fed them live to his pit bulls, authorities said Thursday. Tye Hilmo, 21, was charged Thursday with aggravated cruelty to animals.

Hilmo was already in jail on drug, firearm and probation violation charges, Gwinnett County sheriff's spokeswoman Stacey Bourbonnais said.

The new warrant charges that Hilmo "did give injured live cats and kittens to his pit bull dogs and let the pit bulls kill the already injured cats and kittens. Hilmo would capture and injure neighborhood cats for this purpose."

He was arrested Sept. 10 after investigators serving a search warrant on his house found guns and two pounds of marijuana, Bourbonnais said. He has been jailed since then.

Authorities found the bodies of two kittens near Hilmo's residence. Bourbonnais said they also found a gruesome image on Hilmo's cell phone: a picture of one of his pit bulls and one of the mauled, dead kittens, and beneath picture a caption that says "Good Dog."

"It's pretty disturbing," Bourbonnais said.

The initial tip about Hilmo indicated he may be feeding kittens and cats to his dogs to prepare the dogs for fighting, but no dogfighting charges have been leveled against Hilmo, Bourbonnais said.

Sheriff's officials could not immediately say whether Hilmo has an attorney.

Comments:

... This man needs to stay in jail or be tortured until he is dead. What a phycopath! If he ever gets out of jail, he will probably commit again and who says he won't start on humans??? What he did is so disgusting, it makes my heart ache for the poor, defensless cats & kittens. I can't even begin to use the words, I want to use, to describe what I feel about this man. What an absolute puke! .......he needs some serious help....shame on his parents for ignoring or not noticing he had some issues. I say 'capital punishment' is too good for him. Good thing I'm not a judge, he'd be a goner.

... You ARE one AMAZING and INTELLIGENT WOMAN! You HAVE to be a WOMAN! You are just so compassionate and caring, your posts all come through that way! YOUR COMMENTS AND ATTITUDE ARE SO REFRESHING...from one woman to another! I do not remember if you have ever stated what State you live in but if it is close to Cincinnati, I would love to discuss possibilities of animal rescue and that type of work! Have a great weekend....it is now officially the weekend in Cincinnati! Go Bengals and get it right this time! http://abcnews.go.com/US/comments?type=story&id=3631168 This guy is a sick - totally depraved. Re: pit bulls, it's not the breed, it's the owners that are the problem. I have been around many gentle pit bulls, it's the sociopathic owners that make them into psychos. PLEASE CONTACT THE GEORGIA SHERRIFS OFFICE AND TELL THEM TO LOCK THIS DIRTBAG UP - this is the email address. Police@LawrencevilleGA.org Also, check out the psycho's myspace profile:

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