Two Atlantic City men whose alleged abuse of their dogs garnered attention via a Facebook Live video have been indicted.
Laquay Lewis sparked an investigation when he took to Facebook showing two of his friend's dogs attacking a third in Stanley Holmes Village.
"That's what happens when you let your (expletive) dog loose around this (expletive)," he says in the video streamed Feb. 6.
Lewis did not wind up charged with a crime, but his video also did not get the response he seemed to expect.
Many outraged viewers reached out to police and BreakingAC to find out what could be done.
Clarance Gilliard, 56, who is seen taking one of the dogs off the pile and harnessing him, owns the two attacking dogs.
He wound up charged with animal cruelty and arrested. He surrendered all of his dogs, including nine puppies, and was released from jail while his case goes through the system.
A grand jury Thursday indicted him on animal cruelty charges, along with an added dogfighting charge.
But that wasn't the end of the case.
It turned out that while Humane Law Enforcement Officer Matt Schmidt was investigating that case, fellow HLEO Taylor Brooks was blocks away investigating the death of a dog.
Surveillance video allegedly showed Aarine Burdine-Moody letting out two dogs the day before, and leaving them in the cold.
One was the dead dog Brooks was investigating, the other was the dog being attacked on livestream from Stanley Holmes.
Burdine-Moody was arrested and also was indicted Thursday.
He was arrested shortly after the video became public, and remains jailed after a detention hearing in which his prior animal cruelty case was a factor.
Months earlier, Burdine-Moody was accused of leaving two pit bulls — a male and female — in a crate in his Liberty Apartments residence for days or possibly weeks. Both were extremely emaciated, stained with urine and feces, according to the report.
At Burdine-Moody's detention hearing, the judge said he already was given a chance at release when he was charged on a summons in the first case, meaning he did not go to jail.
Judge William Miller said that decision likely was based on "the reliance that this would not repeat itself, and it did.".
The next step for both men now will be their post-indictment arraignments.
