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Duane Sampson -> RE: RE:Mike Vick case (6/5/2008 5:45:28 PM)
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Steve Foley Indicted
Thu Jun 5, 2008
The Houston Chronicle reports former Houston Texans LB Steve Foley, the owner of two pit bull dogs involved in the attack on a woman and her puppy, has been indicted on a charge of attack by a dog by a Fort Bend County grand jury. Foley, 32, surrendered Wednesday at the Fort Bend County jail, said Sheriff's spokeswoman Terriann Carlson. He was later released on $10,000 bond. Foley's attorney, Paul Nugent, said the incident was an accident that happened while Foley wasn't home. The indictment, a third-degree felony, was unsealed Wednesday. Foley is accused of failing to secure the dogs, which made an unprovoked attack on a neighbor on the afternoon of March 26, according to court documents. The neighbor, Twana Schulz, suffered serious bodily injury when she was bitten on the arms and face, the indictment said. The dogs were seized by animal control officers and later destroyed by authorities. Schulz was carrying the puppy, named Schinckers, when a neighbor yelled that the pit bulls were loose. Schulz headed back toward her house. "I got to almost our sidewalk when they attacked us," she said shortly after the attack. Schulz tried to hold onto the puppy, but the pit bulls jerked it from her hands and killed it. If convicted, a third-degree felony carries a punishment of as many as 10 years in prison.
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