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TYLER \u2014 Our news partner KETK reports that an East Texas man is facing additional charges after he allegedly abandoned nine puppies throughout Smith County. The charges come just days after he was arrested for abusing the puppies\u2019 mother.<\/p>\n
Bryson Joe Jeffery was first arrested in Tyler on the Fourth of July after he admitted to kicking and hitting his dog with a surge protector power strip. The next day, officers became aware that Jeffrey had abandoned nine recently born puppies across Smith County.<\/p>\n
According to the arrest affidavit, the puppies were found in three different locations, including New Copeland Road and Wilma Street. One woman discovered two puppies at her front door and several others around the neighborhood. She took them to a local rescue called Angel Paws, where an employee stated the puppies were newborns and not able to open their eyes yet.<\/p>\n
After officers discovered that all nine puppies had been placed with Angel Paws, they were transported to the Tyler Animal Shelter, where they were reunited with their mother, \u201cZoe\u201d.<\/p>\n
While speaking with officers, Jeffery claimed that he had given the puppies away and that \u201cZoe\u201d had killed two of them. \u201cJeffery stated he gave away six of the eight puppies and that two of the puppies were killed by the mother,\u201d the document said. \u201cHe stated he wrapped the two deceased puppies and placed them in a dumpster and the other puppies he gave away to random people, but could not provide information on who he gave the puppies to.\u201d Officers said they were unable to find the two dead puppies Jeffery said he placed in the dumpster.<\/p>\n
On July 9, Jeffrey\u2019s sister was shown pictures of all the puppies and confirmed that the puppies had previously lived with Jeffrey. \u201c[Jeffrey\u2019s sister] said on July 1, Zoe was with her puppies and Jeffery got upset because the puppies were crying,\u201d the affidavit said. \u201cShe saw Jeffrey take an orange shoe box and put all the puppies in the box. She said she saw him walk out the door and he was very angry.\u201d <\/p>\n
Jeffrey\u2019s sister said she started to argue with Jeffrey to give her the puppies but he said no.
\n\u201cJeffrey told her that he was going to get rid of them because they cried too much,\u201d the document said. \u201cShe followed him down Wilma Street and was asking to have the
\npuppies back and saying the puppies can\u2019t be without their mother but Jeffrey
\nwouldn\u2019t give the puppies back, so she went back to their apartment.\u201d<\/p>\n
According to the arrest affidavit, Jeffrey\u2019s sister said that Jeffrey has \u201canger issues\u201d and that this wasn\u2019t the first time he hurt an animal. She went on to explain that she thinks Jeffrey beat her cat a few months ago. \u201cShe said when she got home from work her cat had his teeth broken out, a
\nbroken tail and a bloody eye,\u201d the document said. \u201cHer cat was fine when she went to work that morning.\u201d<\/p>\n
Jeffery was arrested again on Friday for nine counts of cruelty to a non-livestock animal: failure to provide and is being held at the Smith County Jail on a $25,000 bond.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
TYLER \u2014 Our news partner KETK reports that an East Texas man is facing additional charges after he allegedly abandoned nine puppies throughout Smith County. The charges come just days after he was arrested for abusing the puppies\u2019 mother. Bryson Joe Jeffery was first arrested in Tyler on the Fourth of July after he admitted … Continue reading Man faces new charges after dumping 9 puppies<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1426415,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2025\/07\/Screenshot-2025-07-15-102207-e1752592975468-200x200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1426303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-08 13:37:52","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2025\/07\/Screenshot-2025-07-15-102207-e1752592975468-200x200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1426303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1426303"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1426303\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1426901,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1426303\/revisions\/1426901"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1426415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1426303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1426303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1426303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}