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A 23-year-old Long Beach man was arrested Wednesday for allegedly strangling a cat at his girlfriend’s Redondo Beach home, police said.
Sergei Smirnoff was arrested about 1:10 a.m. in the 2300 block of Carnegie Lane, where police found the dead cat in a garage, Sgt. Shawn Freeman said.
Smirnoff planned to give the woman the cat for Christmas before they started arguing, the Daily Breeze reported.
“There is no indication that Smirnoff obtained the cat to cause harm to it,” Freeman said. “It appears that during a fit of rage, Smirnoff strangled the cat, which resulted in the death of the cat,” he said.
Witnesses told police they saw Smirnoff with his hands around the cat’s neck in the garage, according to the Daily Breeze, but the woman was unaware of what happened until police arrived.
Smirnoff was booked on suspicion of animal cruelty and held on $20,000 bail.
He is due in Torrance court on Monday.
— City News Service