BOULDER — A woman arrested Tuesday after police said she used packing tape to attach her boyfriend’s dog to the side of a refrigerator was allegedly found with a trace amount of heroin while being booked into jail.
Abby Toll, 20, faces a potential felony charge of introducing a controlled substance and a felony charge of sale and distribution of a controlled substance in addition to a felony animal-cruelty charge.
Toll was released tonight on $12,500 bail after a court appearance on the drug charges. She is scheduled to appear again Thursday on the animal-cruelty charge.
Toll made headlines across the country Tuesday after the Camera reported that she had allegedly bound an 12-pound shiba inu’s legs, tail and snout with tape and elastic hair bands and taped him to the fridge to get back at her boyfriend.
Police described the dog, named Rex, as being in severe pain once it was cut loose from its “tomb of tape.”
Police brought the dog to the Boulder Valley Humane Society, and the organization’s director said today that it is in good health.
Humane Society CEO Lisa Pedersen said Rex is actually closer to 2 years old rather than the eight months Toll had told police.
She said the dog is not in the friendliest of moods but is doing well physically.
Toll and her boyfriend, 21-year-old Bryan Beck, were both taken to jail to face a series of criminal charges related to the alleged animal abuse and a fight the couple had after the dog was adhered to the fridge early Tuesday.
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