Daily Mail
July 15, 2014
A 17-year-old boy has been sentenced to 23 years behind bars for fatally shooting a retired police dog during a burglary.
Ivins Rosier was convicted in May for breaking into the Florida home of a trooper and shooting the officer’s five-year-old German Shepherd two years ago. Drake, a former drug-sniffing dog, was euthanized five days later.
Rosier, who was 16 at the time of the incident but tried as an adult, was sentenced on Friday on charges of animal cruelty, armed burglary and shooting into an occupied building.
Palm Beach Post reported Circuit Judge Robin Rosenberg said she handed Rosier a tough sentence as she was bound by sentencing guidelines.
According to police, Rosier was one of three teens who broke into Florida Highway Patrol Trooper Robert Boody’s home on November 18, 2012.
Rosier, who had a history of run-ins with the police, is the first to be tried, according to Palm Beach Post.
Sun Sentinel reported that Rosier confessed to police he was the one who shot the dog.
During the two-day trial, patrol officer Boody cried as he told the court about returning home from work to find Drake, who he adopted in 2010, wounded.
Drake suffered broken limbs, bullet wounds in his head and jaw, massive blood loss and lethal damage to his esophagus.
‘He was in obvious pain,’ Boody said, according to Sun Sentinel.