Police: Woman killed dogs, blamed others

PITTSBURGH (AP) — Police are searching for a Pittsburgh woman they say killed her two dogs and tried to pin their deaths on her son and another man.

Pittsburgh police say 52-year-old Deborah Kyles bound, suffocated and injected a Chihuahua with antifreeze in April. Investigators say Kyles told them she found the dog in the back of her daughter’s boyfriend’s truck.

A second dog was discovered May 4 in her backyard after a neighbor called police. The Pomeranian had been stabbed, its head covered in a plastic bag and its legs bound.

Police say Kyles insisted her son and her daughter’s boyfriend be arrested, but they say she killed the dogs herself.

Investigators tried to arrest Kyles at her home on Thursday, but she wasn’t there. She faces two charges of animal cruelty and one count of filing false police reports.