A US Postal Service employee was arrested on three counts of animal cruelty after a video showed him pepper-spraying a woman’s dog and her two puppies in Florida.
Sian Andre Spence47, of Fort Lauderdale, was arrested on Wednesday, Jan. 28, court records reviewed by Us Weekly show
On the day of his arrest, the mailman called out of work after WPLG released home surveillance footage on Monday, January 26. The video showed it pepper spraying three dogs when he was working, the television station reported.
Spence, according to an affidavit, pepper-sprayed the animals, named Ginger, DJ and Junior, while they were outside their owner. Bianca Green’s front yard in Lauderhill on Jan. 2. The dogs had been behind a metal fence, police wrote in the affidavit.
DJ and Junior are Shih Tzu puppies, and Ginger is their mother, WPLG reported.
As Spence “walked along the other side of the fence to deliver the mail,” he was seen “pepper spraying” the dogs “as they approached, barking on the other side of the fence,” the affidavit says.
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Green described Spence’s actions as “malicious” while speaking with WPLG.
“Before it even gets to the mailbox, before it even gets to our house, it’s spraying them, coming from my neighbors’ houses,” Green told the television station. “He sprays them with pepper spray, the two puppies run, run, they’re sticking their faces in the dirt.”
Green had been at her home during the incident, according to the affidavit.
From inside, she told officers she heard banging on her door and found Ginger “rubbing her face on the floor” after she opened the door.
Then her puppies ran inside, the affidavit says.
According to Green, Spence told him the dogs “tried to bite him, so he sprayed them with dog repellant,” police wrote in the filing.
Green saw her dogs’ eyes were red and tried to wash them with water and then milk, according to the affidavit.
When she viewed the surveillance footage from her home, she saw that Spence had sprayed her dogs twice, the affidavit says.
Information about Spence’s legal representation was not immediately listed in court records Friday, Jan. 30.
Green told officers his dogs have “never bitten anybody” and that he had no previous problems with Spence, whom he had known as a mailman for a year, according to the affidavit.
Spence has worked for the USPS for five years, authorities confirmed to WPLG.
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Before Spence was arrested, USPS told WPLG that “local management has been made aware of the situation and will be appropriately addressed as soon as possible.”
USPS spokesman David P. Coleman said in a statement we on Jan. 30 that Spence “remains employed by the Postal Service and is not currently on active duty.”
His job is being reviewed, according to police, WPLG reported.
During the investigation, an officer spoke with a local veterinarian, who said the effects of pepper spray on dogs are temporary and similar to the effects on people, according to the affidavit.
The pepper spray could cause serious injury if the pepper spray caused significant eye irritation or corneal damage, which could lead to “ulceration or infection,” the vet told the officer.