Florida Man Arrested For Allegedly Tossing Kittens Out Of A Moving Car On The Highway -- WTF??

10.12.2022 - 22:53 / perezhilton.com

A Florida man has been arrested in a horrific case in which two kittens who were thrown from a car on a highway last month.

Diego Torres Ruiz, pictured in his mugshot above, was arrested by deputies from the Monroe County Sheriff’s Office on Thursday. They had been investigating an alleged act of animal cruelty. The 29-year-old man is accused of throwing two kittens from the window of his moving car on U.S. Highway 1 in the Islamorada area of Monroe County late last month.

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According to the Monroe County Sheriff’s Office, which announced the arrest on Thursday evening, Ruiz has been charged with two counts of animal cruelty.

The case came about on November 28. That day, a motorist was traveling on U.S. 1 when they saw two kittens “tumble” out of a Hyundai Santa Fe driving northbound at mile marker 87 near Islamorada. The witness followed the car and tracked its make, model, and license plate number.

As the sheriff’s office explained in their announcement via Facebook, other drivers swerved to avoid hitting the kittens at a high rate of speed. Ruiz tried to deny the allegations when confronted, but police persisted thanks to the witness:

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Sadly, one of the kittens was found dead later that day. The sheriff’s office says it was apparently struck by a vehicle after being thrown from the car.

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There is a happy ending to the other kitten’s story, though. The witness who called in the alleged act of cruelty has adopted that cat after it was found unharmed in the woods nearby. A well-meaning citizen took the animal to a local non-profit that cares for feral