WEST VIRGINIA- Police say a Marion County man broke into a Farmington home and had sex with the homeowner's dog.
A woman called police Wednesday after she went by a friend's Wiley Street home to drop something off while her friend was at work and found a man inside, according to a complaint filed in Marion Magistrate Court.
Sierra Hayhurst told police she found the front door of her friend's home standing open and she could see the man, later identified as Christopher Bagwell, 26, of Mannington, standing behind the homeowner's male Australian shepherd border collie mix, the complaint said.
Bagwell was holding the dog up on a chair and Bagwell's pants were down around his ankles, the complaint said.
Hayhurst told Farmington Police Chief Arnold Triplett that the dog "was making an awful sound like it was in pain," according to the complaint.
After Bagwell caught sight of the woman he let the dog go and the dog jumped down off of the chair and ran away from Bagwell, police said.
Bagwell then started toward Hayhurst, who was still standing outside the front door, pulling up his pants in the process, the complaint said.
Hayhurst said she ran back to her car because she was afraid the man was coming after her, according to the complaint. She drove away and immediately began trying to contact the homeowner, police said.
Triplett said in the complaint that Bagwell also went through the homeowner's gun cabinet and ransacked the home.
Bagwell was taken into custody and charged with misdemeanor animal cruelty and burglary, a felony.
Bagwell has a preliminary hearing before Marion Magistrate Melissa Pride-Linger at 10 a.m. July 28.
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