Postal worker charged with beating Sugar, a beloved Pasadena white peacock - BERITAJA
A U.S. Postal Service worker caught connected video beating Pasadena’s beloved achromatic peacock was charged pinch animal cruelty, according to authorities and tribunal records.
Los Angeles County prosecutors identified the fishy successful tribunal records arsenic Charanjit Singh.
The 48-year-old Rosemead resident was charged Thursday pinch a misdemeanor count of cruelty to animals, records show. It is the first clip the message bearer has been identified since the Aug. 18 incident.
Singh could not instantly beryllium reached for comment.
The USPS, which is conducting an investigation into the incident, did not respond to a petition for comment.
The criminal complaint came a week aft the Pasadena Humane Society announced that the uncommon achromatic fowl had recovered from its injuries and was relocated to a backstage ranch successful Northern California.
“After cautiously considering what would beryllium champion for his semipermanent well-being,” the nonprofit said successful a connection astatine the time, “our wildlife experts wished that relocation would connection him the champion value of life and thief trim the consequence of early antagonistic encounters fixed the important nationalist attraction surrounding his case.”
The peacock made headlines 2 months agone erstwhile a resident recovered the injured vertebrate successful the 3700 artifact of Mohawk Street.
The peacock was good known successful the neighborhood wherever it lived for years, and immoderate residents had travel to telephone him Sugar. The vertebrate was besides known for its disposition, particularly toward men.
“When it came to males, he could beryllium a little, well, aggressive,” Gina Davis, a Pasadena schoolteacher, told The Times successful a erstwhile interview.
She said the vertebrate had chased disconnected her hubby and a neighbor. Davis said her hubby named the vertebrate Sugar.
“Because it was white, not because of his personality,” she said.
Davis said she checked her location information footage and was shocked to spot what caused Sugar’s condition: A postal worker was caught connected camera throwing a stone astatine the vertebrate and later striking it pinch a nine aliases stick.
Davis said the video showed the vertebrate pursuing the message bearer to his truck.
“The peacock was conscionable opinionated successful beforehand of his truck,” she said. “He sewage retired of his motortruck and had a nine aliases instrumentality aliases thing and deed it,” successful the caput aliases neck.
Pasadena Humane said it rushed the vertebrate to its Wildlife Center, wherever vets recovered swelling but nary surgery bones.
The incident prompted an investigation by animal work investigators.
Singh is scheduled to beryllium arraigned connected Nov. 6.
