Two women who poisoned seven dogs in Tarija are sentenced

The departmental prosecutor of Tarija, Sandra Gutiérrez, reported today that, two women were sentenced to three years in prison for poisoning seven dogs in the Abasto market in the city of Tarija.

The women sentenced are María AE and Mabel DBAaged 60 and 36, who underwent an abbreviated procedure hearing and pleaded guilty to the crime of biocide before the Fourth Anti-Corruption and Violence Against Women Criminal Sentencing Court in the capital of Tarija.

“This case had a lot of social connotation in Tarija and During the investigation, several elements were collected, such as the police report, the photographic sample where the situation in which the lifeless dogs were found is verified, necropsy of the victims carried out by zoonosis personnel which demonstrates that the cause of death was due to ingestion of phosphorus organs”Gutierrez said.

The prosecutor in the case, Cristina Pacheco, pointed out that the incident occurred on December 19, 2023, at the Abasto Market in the city of Tarijawhere the night watchman found several dogs with signs of poisoning.

This fact was reported to the market leaders who asked the personnel of the Forest Police and Environmental Preservation (Pofoma) to attend to the case and the dead dogs were identified, so the Zoonosis Unit proceeded to carry out the survey. five dogs and two others were later found.

During the investigation, security cameras and interviews with witnesses, it was determined that the two women had a small box from which they took food, supposedly poisoned, that they gave to the dogs.