Dog killer gets three years

Steven Romero, taken from the federal building in Grand Junction earlier this year.

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Dean Humphrey

Steven Romero, taken from the federal building in Grand Junction earlier this year.

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Friday, July 30, 2010

The man who dragged Buddy the dog to death last winter on Colorado National Monument will serve three years in federal prison and then a year of supervised probation.

U.S. District Judge Philip A. Brimmer today also fined Steven Romero $500 and ordered him to pay $345 to Buddy’s owners.

Romero dragged Buddy behind his pick-up truck through the Colorado National Monument, and “in doing so needlessly mutilated, tortured and killed the dog,” the U.S. Attorney’s Office said.