Two College Football Players Are Arrested After Snapchat Video Of Them Posted Allegedly Beating Miniature Poodle

College Football Players potentially face up to one year in jail if convicted for beating a miniature poodle caught on video.

Two College Football Players Are Arrested After Snapchat Video Of Them Posted Allegedly Beating Miniature Poodle (PHOTO: TheDailyBeast)

Two Buffalo College Football Players Will Face Jail Time Over Alleged Abusing Mini Poodle With Leather Belt

Two College football players have been arrested and kicked off their team after a video of them posted on Snapchat for allegedly beating a dog using a leather belt over “damage” the animal caused to a couch, officials and prosecutors in New York said.

The two former College football players who played for the University at Buffalo football team are identified as Blake Hiligh 19 years old and Zachary Pilarcek, 20 years old.

The Snapchat footage was filmed by Pilarcek who was talking off-cam about the damage Kobe did to their couch in a Sweet Home Road apartment he shares with Hiligh the dog’s owner. It was seen Hiligh was “yelling” at the dog and beating him with a leather belt, Fox News reported.

Highlight and Pilarcek are both charged with one count of overdriving, torturing, and injuring animals and one count of failure to provide proper sustenance, the People reported.

Moreover, Erie County District Attorney John Flynn stated that if both suspects were convicted, the maximum penalty they would be facing was one year each behind bars.

Kobe was rescued from the property and immediately transported to the SPCA for a full examination and any necessary treatment.

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The SPCA Chief Communications Officer Gina Lattuca stated the next day of the incident claiming that there was an email sent to the organization’s Animal Cruelty Investigations Department from an anonymous that contained a video of the alleged animal abuse.

The University at Buffalo Police were then contacted by the SPCA investigator after obtaining similar reports regarding the alleged animal abuse.

The head coach Maurice Linguis for the University at Buffalo said that both players were dismissed from the Buffalo Bulls team after learning about the incident because the football program has ‘zero tolerance’ for animal cruelty.

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