Dalian "Poisoned Dog Case" Final Trial: People Who Poisoned Drugs In Seventies Received 3 Years In prison

Recently, the Intermediate People’s Court of Dalian City, Liaoning Province made a final ruling on a “poisoned dog case” that occurred 3 years ago in which a seventy-year-old man was dissatisfied with community residents raising pet dogs and maliciously poisoning 9 pet dogs: reject some pets The appeal of the dog owner upheld the original verdict.

On September 21, 2017, several pet dogs died in a community in Dalian Development Zone. An owner said that his pet dog kept convulsing and vomiting before his death, and then died of pain within a few minutes, suspected of eating poisonous substances by mistake. The

elevator monitoring recorded the poisoning process of Ma Moulun. Picture source/community resident

Almost at the same time, several pet dogs in the community were recruited, and all of them had symptoms such as vomiting, convulsions, hitting walls, and running around before death. After communicating with the owner group, it was learned that 9 pet dogs died in the community that night, and the attack occurred suddenly, and there was no time to go to the pet hospital. The reporter of

Upstream News (WeChat ID: shangyounews) noted that the pet dogs killed included one Schnauzer, one deer, two bichon frises, one chihuahua, three teddy dogs, and one pomeranian.

The residents of the community called the police that night. At the same time, in order to prevent another accident, the property staff searched and cleaned up the community again and found some residues of suspected beef jerky and sliced ​​ham.

The police identified the suspect as a 70-year-old resident of the community, Ma Moulun, through monitoring. After investigation, it was found that at about 6:30 in the afternoon, Ma Moulun came out of the 16th floor and took the elevator with beef pellets and ham slices containing toxic substances, and put the above-mentioned toxic substances around the elevator. Then Ma Moulun took the elevator to the Hanging Garden on the fourth floor and launched again. After the delivery, take the elevator back to your home, the whole process takes about half an hour.

The procuratorial organ of Dalian Economic Development Zone charged Ma Moulun with the crime of throwing dangerous substances and filed a public prosecution with the court of the Development Zone. The owner of the victim's pet dog also filed an incidental civil lawsuit.

On May 12 this year, Dalian Intermediate People's Court issued a second-instance criminal ruling: the appeal was rejected and the original sentence was upheld. Photo source/China Judgment Document Network

On November 19, 2019, the Dalian Economic Development Zone Court made the first instance judgment. The court held that Ma Mulun injected toxic substances and caused the death of nine pet dogs. His behavior endangered public safety and violated the property rights of others, which constituted the crime of putting dangerous substances. The court sentenced Ma Moulun to three years in prison and four years of probation. Ma Moulun compensated each pet dog owner totaling 31,100 yuan. After the verdict of the first instance was pronounced, some dog owners refused to accept the appeal and demanded Ma compensation for the loss of the dead dog and spiritual compensation. According to the China Judgment Document Network, on May 12 this year, Dalian Intermediate People's Court issued a final ruling numbered (2020) Liao 02 Xing Zhong No. 66: the appeal was rejected and the original judgment was upheld.

Upstream news reporter Zhang Ying