{"id":60587,"date":"2025-05-23T08:31:13","date_gmt":"2025-05-23T08:31:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/?p=60587"},"modified":"2025-05-23T08:31:15","modified_gmt":"2025-05-23T08:31:15","slug":"alleged-serial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/?p=60587","title":{"rendered":"Alleged Serial\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"512\" src=\"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image-542.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-60588\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image-542.png 768w, https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image-542-300x200.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>A California man described as a serial cat killer has been charged<br>Alejandro Acosta Oliveros was charged with felony animal cruelty and felony theft of a companion animal<br>The 46-year-old was arrested following accusations that he had killed over 12 cats at his home in Santa Ana<br>A man from California has been charged with luring and killing cats.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On Tuesday, May 20, the Orange County District Attorney\u2019s Office confirmed in a press release that Alejandro Acosta Oliveros was charged with felony animal cruelty and felony theft of a companion animal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>PEOPLE previously reported in April that the 46-year-old was arrested following allegations that he had killed over 12 cats at his home in Santa Ana.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cA Santa Ana man accused of luring cats with cat food in order to kidnap the animals to stomp them and beat them to death has been charged with felony animal cruelty along with felony theft of a companion animal for stealing a Bengal Lynx from a Westminster home,\u201d the release by the Orange County DA read on Tuesday. \u201cHe is also accused of having methamphetamine on him when he was booked into jail.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>PEOPLE has contacted the Orange County District Attorney\u2019s Office, the Santa Ana Police Department and the Westminster Police Department for further comment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en33.usnews.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/21ef27ffc23b492bbb9a945d71d476d3.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11651\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Per the DA\u2019s release, Oliveros faces \u201ca maximum sentence of four years and four months if convicted of two counts of felony animal cruelty, one felony count of theft of a companion animal, and an additional one year in custody if convicted of one misdemeanor count of possession of a controlled substance.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>also read&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A California man described as a serial cat killer has been chargedAlejandro Acosta Oliveros was charged with felony animal cruelty and felony theft of a companion animalThe&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":60588,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60587"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60587"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60587\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60589,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60587\/revisions\/60589"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/60588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}