At a heartbreaking moment, a man abandons a dog on the side of the road

 

At a heartbreaking moment, a man abandons a dog on the side of the road

Police said they expect another person to be arrested for his role in the alleged crime.

A video of the dog, which was published on Tuesday, went viral on social media. It shows a young man removing a dog's collar before getting into an SUV as the driver, was an older man, waits.

Then the SUV car goes off, and the dog tries to keep up

The dog was rescued after the accident, and within 24 hours, it was adopted by a family

On Friday, the El Paso County Sheriff's Office announced the arrest of Luis Antonio Campos, 68, for his alleged role in abandoning a roadside dog in Horizon City. The alleged crime was caught on videotape, and police said an arrest is expected again.

Luis Antonio Campos has been arrested for animal cruelty after he abandoned a husky dog ​​on the side of the road.

The El Paso County Sheriff's Office announced that Luis Antonio Campos, 68, was detained Friday, with his bond set at $5,000.

Video of the incident - apparently recorded by another road user - circulated earlier this week, showing the dog being abandoned on the side of a road in Horizon City, an El Paso suburb.

The video clip shows a young man removing his dog's leash and collar on the side of the road. 

One user wrote on Instagram, where the video has been viewed more than a million times: 'Very heartbreaking.'

This is very sad and heartbreaking. Poor dogs! All they know is to show love, wrote another.

I don't know how these people can get into that car, see that dog in the mirror running after them and then drive away. 'I don't know how you can do that as a human,' Ronald Cuomo, who has been rescuing dogs in El Paso, Texas.

"This is painful," he added. "The immediate idea that comes to mind for people who love animals is to give me that person five minutes in a dark room."

An Instagram user, MegaRacing, who shared the video on the platform, said the person who recorded the video called the police and that the dog was taken to the Huckleberry Hound Dog Rescue of El Paso.

The dog was named Nanuk, and the shelter reported that the husky was about ten months old.