Target: Daniel Rubinstein, District Attorney of Mesa County, Colorado
Goal: Prosecute man accused of tying up, punching, and throwing helpless puppy.
When Colorado deputies responded to a call of potential animal abuse in Mesa County, they reported a disturbing sight: a tied-up four-month-old puppy with visible injuries to the legs and stomach. The man living at the residence, Cody Wardell, had been witnessed allegedly throwing the young dog from a porch with force. The eyewitness claimed that Wardell then restrained the pup and struck the animal multiple times. After authorities questioned him, Wardell reportedly admitted to the series of events.
The puppy’s injuries were apparently so severe that emergency surgery was needed to save both the dog’s leg and life. Unfortunately, Wardell was only charged with a misdemeanor. Under state law, most animal cruelty offenses only qualify for this charge on a first offense. A felony aggravated animal cruelty charge is available in the state, but prosecutors did not seek this more stringent punishment.
Sign the petition below to demand the county’s legal leaders take a second look at this troubling oversight.
PETITION LETTER:
Dear DA Rubenstein,
Under state law, a charge of aggravated animal cruelty can be brought if the reported victim was tortured, mutilated, or killed. In the case of Cody Wardell, a case for all three qualifications could be made. The small puppy in the case received life-threatening injuries from an alleged beating. This animal was reportedly restrained and pummeled repeatedly, which a rational person might consider torture. And the puppy’s leg was apparently maimed (or mutilated) to the point where only surgery could save it.
Despite all of these aggravating factors, the suspect only faces a misdemeanor charge. Do better. Reevaluate this case and consider applying charges that truly reflect the grave nature of the alleged offense.
Sincerely,
[Your Name Here]
Photo Credit: Matheus Bertelli
Throw the SOB from a porch, tie it up and beat s**t out of it!!!! Break the legs and almost kill it. Then lock it in a cage!!
Liz, I could not have said it better. P.O.S. SCUM.
I could literally be the one to joyfully beat this sack of shit, and sell tickets to the event.
Who is the owner and does the dog go back to the residence of crime? Who pays the vet bill? The POS should receive more severe punishment.
Throw his bitch ass off a fkn balcony and then tie him up! An eye for an eye for the fkn monsters! I hope your friends and family are aware and someone local serves justice on u
Incarcerate this criminal for animal abuse or at least ban him from being near any animal for life. Animals are sentient beings. Is the law enforcement going to wait until he does this to another human being before taking appropriate action? Research has clearly shown a strong correlation between animal and human abuse. Why should innocent animals suffer at the hands of human monsters? Set an example and incarcerate this worthless human being.
Corey wardell Needs to be beat to a pulp👊👊👊
GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. — A Grand Junction man was arrested after he allegedly threw a puppy and repeatedly punched it, causing life-threatening injuries.
The Mesa County Sheriff’s Office said its deputies were called out to reports of animal abuse in progress on Monday in the 500 block of Garfield Drive in Grand Junction.
What??? This is the punishment for taking a young pup who has a whole life ahead of them, hurting them so bad that they have permanent damage? An animal can’t speak, so this makes it easy to give a monster a light sentence. This is nothing and this idiot deserves so much more. This is why abuse to animals continue over and over and over. This is a sin to let this SOB off like this.
It IS a sin!! I wish I could watch this pig burn in hell. I would be a religious believer if I could. I can’t believe now but whatever diety is there, would never allow the innocent to be tortured by the assholes.
Well yes Sister June, I fully agree. But it is ONLY an animal so these prosecutors could not give a toss! All these waste of spacers are concerned about is how much MORE money they can make. Until the Justice system has a bloody good ‘shake up’ this torture WILL continue and these piece of shit ‘perps’ know this and could not give a fuck!
But if confronted by a Animal Vigilante group of same minded people then these ‘perps’ would change their tune immediately as they are all bullies and cowards who can only abuse innocent animals who will not and cannot fight back.
Until the world is cleared of these buggers animal torture WILL keep on happening. And right now the only way is for these bastards to be systematically removed from the world by any means possible! Then and only then would a gradual decline in animal torture become noticeable.
But until then unless ‘posse’ groups are formed all with one mind to remove these asswipes, animal torture will continue. These are only pieces of crap that no one would miss, so no loss whatsoever!
J.W.
What a deplorable disgusting MONSTER!! NOTHING BUT A COWARD!!! To pick on a small defenseless little dog!! What a PR…CK
lock this Monster up and THROW AWAY THE KEY FOR GOOD HE’S A DANGER TO SOCIETY AND ALL ANIMALS.
Owner should be thrown off a big cliff. Disgusting excuse of a human
Looks like the psycho lives at 536 Garfield Drive in Grand Junction, CO – if you see him, say hello with a Karma bat!
A damn misdemeanor because the prosecutors are too effing pansy-assed to bring felony charges??? You have got to be kidding me! First, Cody Wardell needs to have true justice administered to him with a Karma bat (aka Louisville Slugger) then the prosecutors need to get what that innocent, sweet little puppy got and see if he/she still thinks a misdemeanor charge is just fine! Bunch of slack-ass prosecutors and judges is what is wrong! Tase that son of a bitch Cody Wardell, tie him to a tree, administer justice and leave him for buzzard food. Here’s a link to pictures of that poor puppy and that evil son of a bitch that hurt him! https://crimewatch.net/us/co/mesa/sheriff/134177/post/man-arrested-animal-cruelty-case-involving-puppy
Wow, thank you for this information! I love to travel and “visit” folks like this. You know 😉 . I always have my karma bat on hand for my adventures. We should all be doing this. Its quite a satisfying hobby.
Good on you Sister Tammy.
Way to go girl. With you 100%. More people like you are needed to deal with these nasty animal torturing bastards. Right on!!!
J.W.
Lock this POS up
Chop the scum bags hands off and throw him off a cliff
Charged with only a misdemeanor!! What a joke! He nearly killed the poor dog and he’s going to walk away with a slap on the wrist. You need to make some serious changes to your animal welfare laws.
I’m so disgusted with how some people are… cowardly devils that I only wish them suffering and pain in their lives
For the authorities to effectively rubber stamp this venal abuse by dismisssing it as nothing says a lot about Colorado and it’s not good. Why not just post billboards that say ‘We tolerate and welcome animal abuse here!” He has real anger issues and is a danger to your community and you didn’t even slap his wrist!
DESPICABLE. Khack bar saret
Once you look the demon up, he looks satanic! REPULSIVE. What a fright.
A visit from an Animal Vigilante group or Animal activist group should be forthcoming for this arrogant nasty looking cunt!
I mean— what the hell is wrong with these pussyfoot Judges? Why won’t these waste of spacers give a punishment to FIT THE CRIME? Why won’t they?
(A) Because they are afeared of these bastard perps.
(B) Because they are only animals and do not count.
(C) Because they they are fucking useless at their so-called jobs and could not give a toss.
These are the tossers who need the same treatment as the tortured animals. Then got rid of and let in someone ( like one of us) who would have the balls to dish out the same treatment as this is the ONLY way these sick- brained’ arrogant fuckers will understand! The bastards will NEVER change as this torture is in their blood as has, no doubt, been going on since their childhood.
And, as ‘uncommonsense’ says, someone or some group could pay this bastard a ‘ low-key’ visit the show the nasty prick that this sort of beating or animal torture DOES HURT—- ALOT!!!
It is the ONLY way these pricks will learn. But if something happens which entails they stop breathing, then so much the better as these turds will NEVER be any benefit to our world!!
WouldI do it if I had the chance— YOU BET!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!👍👍
J.W.
These punishments are BULLSHIT!! Who cares if it was the scumbag’s first offense. It always starts with the first and keeps going. STOP the abuse at the FIRST offence.
My observation is that if justice won’t step up to do the right thing, then others will find a way!!
Daniel Rubinstein, District Attorney of Mesa County, Colorado
Misdemeanor? That is a joke! No wonder animal abuse if ramped! You want these psychos to continue their torture spree on innocent animals and who knows what follows!!! You need to walk in the victims paws!!!
This was a small puppy who needed life saving emergency surgery! That is aggravated assault that should result in aggravated felony charges.
The same be done to the Vile man who hurt this poor innocent baby…Beat him to an inch of his worthless life
Better still, beat the fucker to death then clear off quickly afterwards! Way to go!!!
J.W.