‘Monster’ Florida man violently slammed puppy on concrete floor: Police

Man arrested after abusing puppy

Background: Marco Zuluaga being arrested by Osceola County police (Osceola County Sheriff’s Office). Inset: Lilly (Osceola County Sheriff’s Office).

A Florida man was charged with animal cruelty after being caught on camera allegedly slamming a 1-year-old puppy onto a concrete floor.

Osceola County police arrested Marco Zuluaga, 28, on Dec. 27 after being alerted to an “animal complaint” at an apartment complex in Kissimmee, Florida. According to the arrest warrant, the apartment management turned over surveillance video from the day before that showed a man identified as Zuluaga carrying a small dog. A noise can be heard off-camera “consistent with someone slamming something against a hard surface.” Zuluaga then comes back into the frame with the dog and violently throws her “in a pitcher motion” down onto the concrete floor outside the apartment. The dog can be heard yelping in pain and then running away.