LAFOURCHE, La. -- A Lockport woman is in the Lafourche Parish Detention Center charged with attacking her neighbors while trying to retrieve her wandering pit bull.
Just before 11 a.m. Wednesday, deputies were called to the 300 block of Hamilton Street, according to a news release from Lafourche Parish Sheriff’s Office.
Homeowner Larry Powell called deputies to report that a brown-colored pit bull belonging to Wendy Dodge, 50, of Lockport, was loose and walking the neighborhood, police said. Powell told deputies the pit bull had killed his pet Chihuahua in January of this year.
Deputies told Dodge her dog needed to be picked up and either housed in her home or leashed in her yard, police said, and at the time, she could not produce proof the pet had been vaccinated but said she would retrieve her pet.
Shortly before noon, deputies were called back to in reference to a fight, police said. When they got there, deputies were told by another homeowner, Belinda Guevara, that Dodge attacked her and her daughter with a metal leash while trying to retrieve her pit bull from their yard. Guevara said she asked Dodge several times to leave the property, but she refused.
Dodge is charged with aggravated assault, aggravated battery, cruelty to animals and other charges.
