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Drug tip leads to weird find: 8 pups in freezer
Tucson police are at a loss to explain why a man they accused of growing marijuana in his home had eight dead puppies in a cardboard box in his freezer.
"They were in a box, in the freezer, stacked up ... it was disturbing," said Sgt. Mark Robinson, a police spokesman.
A woman at the home of Jason D. Reynolds, 35, told agents with the multiagency Counter Narcotics Alliance that she and Reynolds took a dog in labor to a veterinarian and the dog delivered stillborn pups.
They took the pups and returned to Reynolds' home in the 400 block of North Gollob Road, Robinson said, adding police tracked down the veterinarian and he verified the story.
Having the pups in the freezer is not illegal, and Reynolds faces no charges for that, Robinson said. He faces charges in connection with 30 marijuana plants found growing in three bedrooms in his home, Robinson said.
Narcotics alliance agents began investigating Reynolds based on an 88-CRIME tip and searched his home and arrested him Thursday on charges of unlawful production of marijuana and possession of drug paraphernalia. He also was named in a narcotics possession warrant out of Arkansas, Robinson and a Pima County Jail records clerk said.
At an initial court appearance Thursday, Robinson said, Reynolds was ordered released to the supervision of the Superior Court's Pretrial Services program.
Robinson said 11 dogs and two kittens also were found living in filth with no water.
Those animals were taken by Pima Animal Care Center workers, Robinson said.
Tucson police are at a loss to explain why a man they accused of growing marijuana in his home had eight dead puppies in a cardboard box in his freezer.
"They were in a box, in the freezer, stacked up ... it was disturbing," said Sgt. Mark Robinson, a police spokesman.
A woman at the home of Jason D. Reynolds, 35, told agents with the multiagency Counter Narcotics Alliance that she and Reynolds took a dog in labor to a veterinarian and the dog delivered stillborn pups.
They took the pups and returned to Reynolds' home in the 400 block of North Gollob Road, Robinson said, adding police tracked down the veterinarian and he verified the story.
Having the pups in the freezer is not illegal, and Reynolds faces no charges for that, Robinson said. He faces charges in connection with 30 marijuana plants found growing in three bedrooms in his home, Robinson said.
Narcotics alliance agents began investigating Reynolds based on an 88-CRIME tip and searched his home and arrested him Thursday on charges of unlawful production of marijuana and possession of drug paraphernalia. He also was named in a narcotics possession warrant out of Arkansas, Robinson and a Pima County Jail records clerk said.
At an initial court appearance Thursday, Robinson said, Reynolds was ordered released to the supervision of the Superior Court's Pretrial Services program.
Robinson said 11 dogs and two kittens also were found living in filth with no water.
Those animals were taken by Pima Animal Care Center workers, Robinson said.
I used to have a SWEET red tail Boa! She was about 8 feet long and thick as my arm (big) probably weighed 40 pounds. My wife wouldn't let me freeze rats so we had a rat ranch in the garage. (They breed FAST) 
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