Andrea Rosebrock 
On the 4th of July, two 21 year old Mankato/Litchfield men, Alex Curtis Krause and Braydon Charles Jerve, brutally killed Krause’s girlfriend’s dog, a little Pomeranian. They staked the dog out in the yard by its leash, shot it with an arrow, beat it over the head with a log then dumped its dead body in the trash.
They were both charges with felony animal cruelty. Now one of the two, Braydon Charles Jerve, got himself a deal. Pleading guilty to animal cruelty, the charge was dropped from a felony to a misdemeanor. Supposedly, he just beat the dog over its head to end its suffering after Krause’s arrow didn’t kill it. Likely story! Oh, I’m sure he beat the little dog over the head to kill but doubt there was any ‘end its suffering’ kindness there, he just wanted to kill the dog.
So these two pieces of trash torture and kill a dog together, one puts a little spin on the story and will wound up with the usual ‘wrist slap’ sentence no doubt.
Another fine hour for our judicial system! Or maybe in-justice system would be more like it.
Two misdemeanor marijuana drug paraphernalia possession charges from a July 11th arrest were also dropped in conjunction with the plea deal. And all he had to do was sign a statement against his friend, Alex Curtis Krause, who will be on trial in December for the felony animal cruelty charge.
Answering questions from District Court Judge Norbert Smith, Jerve said he and Krause went to Ziegler’s Lake Crystal house on July 3. Krause told Jerve that Ziegler’s father, Tony Ziegler, had talked about getting rid of the pet Pomeranian.
Jerve testified Krause took the leashed dog and staked the leash in the ground. Then Krause used Tony Ziegler’s bow and arrow to shoot the dog once. The arrow went through the dog but didn’t immediately kill it, so it was “yipping,” he said.
“I hit it over the head once to put it out of its misery,” Jerve said. (Mankato Free Press)
Pretty self-serving, don’t ya think?? Piece of trash! Guess that’s how the criminals do it though, give up your buddy and get a break. He should get a break alright and I’m not even going to suggest where…
Maybe if this is really what it will take to get Krause convicted and if, big if there, he actually gets a decent sentence, it might be worth it, but then we all have seen the kind of sentences these bastards get…
Sick pieces of shit I must say … what is this world coming to….
just a thought Deanna, could you put in the state….so we know where these places are….some of us might want to attend the hearings….can’t write to legislators sometimes unless you live in their state….
thanks so much
@roseanna – Sorry, Roseanna, I usually try to make sure I do that since my readers span the country and even the globe. These POSs are from Minnesota. Will try to make sure I do better
Deanna
SICK BASTARDS!!!!!!!!!!! sorry about the caps but i AM screaming/yelling here…..
i’ll b good now.
@dru – I don’t think I have any ‘good’ commentors here, Dru…. probably would make things pretty boring, if you ask me.
You all usually say all the things I want to say but restrain myself from saying because I have to be ‘good’ to a certain degree.
So you just keep on, Dru!
Hugs,
D.
ONCE AGAIN I’M SPEECHLESS.
I bet if the judge made them assholes stand downtown with a sign aroung their necks thats says I kill puppy dogs for no reasons for a week I bet you would never see them again that the best thing for them let the good people see them for what they are trash they would be so ashame I bet at the end of thr day they could not look at anyones face god I wish a judge would do thing like that I WISH I WISH ….jeffrey
@JANET MITCHELL – You have to admit that it really isn’t any surprise
@jeffrey griffith – I have to say that I really, REALLY like that idea! It doesn’t ‘hurt’ them in any way, nothing like that they inflicted upon that poor innocent dog, but you can bet the public would inflict its own ‘justice’!
Thanks Jeffrey!
Deanna
I like that idea of standing with the sign of quilt out in the public. The time is eight hours with no sitting down. It is okay to write in caps beause I am angry too about scum who would hurt animals like this. This kid’s karma is gonna be a bad one.