Hall authorities charge man with animal cruelty

A 36-year-old man was being held in the Hall County Jail on $5,900 bond Saturday morning following his arrest earlier this week on animal cruelty charges.

Erick Vinicio Leonardo Estrada was arrested Thursday morning on Malibu Ridge by Hall County Animal Control officers after they say they were shown video evidence of him abusing two dogs. The sister of the dog’s owner had called Animal Control to report the incident.

“(Dog’s owner) showed us video of her boyfriend abusing the dogs by wrapping them in a towel and slamming them against the wall,” one officer wrote in their report.

At that point, he said, Estrada was placed under arrest, charged with two counts of animal cruelty.