A Gainesville resident woke up to something much worse than a ticket on his car in early February. He found a dead cat in a trash bag.
The woman suspected of killing the cat and placing it there has been on the loose for the past three weeks.
On Feb. 5 at about midnight, an unidentified woman entered a parking garage on the 1400 block of Northwest Fourth Ave. in the College Park neighborhood, Ed Williams, the director of animal services, said. She walked up to a car put a trash bag containing a dead cat on the hood.
It is unknown why she put the cat on the car, he said.
She is a young, white female weighing about 110 pounds and was 5 feet 6 inches tall, he said. She drove a black Nissan Frontier Crew Cab pickup truck and had an accomplice.
Animal services believes there is a relationship between the woman and the owner of the car but were not able to identify her.
Williams said the investigation has taken so long because her face was not clearly seen on the surveillance footage.
Animal abuse by neglect is common, but acts like this one are not, he said.
The suspect could be charged with felony animal cruelty if animal services can prove it was intentional, Williams said.
Anyone with information on the case is urged to call Alachua County Animal Services at 352-264-6870.
Alachua County Animal Services is looking for woman suspected of killing a cat and placing it in a bag and on someone's car.
