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01-02-2005, 09:00 PM | #1 |
YT 6000 Club Member Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Seattle, WA
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| [News] Stolen Yorkies Returned Sad that one died! --- Nine dogs were safely returned to their Bloomington owner on Thursday, a day after police arrested four people wanted in connection with demanding ransom for 10 Yorkshire terriers stolen the day after Christmas. "I'm thankful I got these back," dog breeder Eileen Sparks, 80, said Thursday. "I didn't think we would even see them again until we got a call asking for $3,000." Officials from the Los Angeles police and San Bernardino County sheriff's departments cooperated Wednesday in tracing calls and tracking the suspected dognappers to a phone booth in the Glassell Park area of Los Angeles. Though 10 Yorkshire terriers had been stolen, nine were returned. One of the eight puppies stolen had died. Police said Jose Isabel Suarez, 23; Jorge Dominguez, 36; and Victorino Arzate, 24, all of Mexico, were arrested on suspicion of home-invasion robbery. A male juvenile was arrested and released to his guardians in Los Angeles County. Officials had no information on the disposition of two other suspects in the dognappings. Sparks said police returned two mothers and seven puppies, worth about $22,000, to her at about 5 a.m. Thursday. She said one puppy had died, most likely from not getting milk from a mother stressed by being removed from her surroundings. Sparks said the group found her by answering an advertisement. She said the six people involved in the dognapping had appeared on her doorstep in different groups and times before Christmas. At 12:30 p.m. Sunday, Sparks said, four people - including a woman and her baby - arrived at her home wanting to see the puppies. She said two young men she had sent away 30 minutes earlier suddenly barged into her home. "They shoved a gun in my face, pushed me toward the kitchen and shoved me to the floor," Sparks said. "You think they would get a job and make money instead of doing that." They took the dogs and fled, Sparks said. She received seven calls and a ransom demand within three hours on Wednesday. She said she kept them on the phone as long as she could while police traced and tracked the dognappers. Police said the suspects could be involved in other thefts of small dogs in Los Angeles, Riverside and Orange counties. Mary Elizabeth Dugmore, a spokeswoman for the 700-member Yorkshire Terrier National Rescue, said from her home in Tennessee that dognappings are uncommon. She said she had learned of Sparks' ordeal via the Internet on Thursday, when police released the information. "This is the first time I've ever heard of this," Dugmore said about dognappers using guns. "It's scary." http://www.pe.com/localnews/inland/s...p31.57c22.html |
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01-02-2005, 09:49 PM | #2 |
YT 2000 Club Member Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: California
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| WORTH $22,000 OMG!!!! I saw this story on the news (the puppies were ADORABLE) wow, i thought breeders didnt make much money off their yorkies |
01-03-2005, 12:48 PM | #3 | |
Yorkie Talker Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Northern California
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How much did you get yours for? Here in norcal there's some going for between $800 (males) to I've seen $1800 for females but some males as well! Treena and Bruno | |
01-03-2005, 05:41 PM | #4 |
YT 2000 Club Member Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: California
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| i got toby for $500..... because he was "oversized" (hes only going to get about 7..... 8lbs at teh MOST) AND because his ears wouldnt stand up (i wanted the floppy ears anyways)....... his asking price was $600, but because of his "flaws" he was marked down $100, and because the breeder liked me ( i appeared very knowledgable about the breed thanks to this site, AND i asked a lot of questions ... and so did he....) |
01-03-2005, 05:41 PM | #5 |
YT 2000 Club Member Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: California
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| where are you in northern california??? (just curious) |
01-05-2005, 09:37 AM | #6 |
Senior Yorkie Talker Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Georgia
Posts: 246
| That is just bad what people will do. I have never know of dognappers either but now I will becareful letting my dog out with me watching which i do anyways I have to worry about hawks getting my dog. |
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