A resignation, a suspension and an investigation
Animal Control’s top officer is gone, a shelter employee has been suspended, and the city has launched an investigation into charges of animal mistreatment at the city’s shelter following a District Weekly probe, city officials said today.

The brutal death of a pit bull suggests there’s trouble at Animal Control, a document obtained by the District Weekly suggests.
The March 15 report by registered veterinary technician Christine Culhno of Long Beach Animal Control describes an incident in which an untrained officer used a rabies pole to drag an out-of-control pit bull from its [...]