Two teens have been charged with drowning a dog at a Bradley County home in January and later coming back to burglarize the house, according to a news release.
Bradley sheriff’s spokesman Bob Gault said the Dalmation was tied up at its owner’s home on Mount Zion Road when someone attached concrete blocks to its lead and tossing it in a pond on Jan. 21.
On March 6, someone broke into the home and stole a .22-caliber rifle and a laptop computer. Three other guns were used to vandalize vehicles on the property, the release stated.
Two 15 year-olds are charged with aggravated burglary, theft over $1,000, vandalism over $1,000, aggravated cruelty to animals and the intentional killing of an animal.
One youth is from Bradley County. The other is from Ooltewah. Both are being held at the Bradley County Juvenile Detention center.