Associated Press - March 24, 2010 6:35 PM ET
WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. (AP) - A 21-year-old New York man has admitted in court that he killed his ex-girlfriend's dog by snapping its spine.
Westchester County district attorney Janet DiFiore says Jonathan King of Yorktown pleaded guilty Wednesday to aggravated animal cruelty.
She says King went to the ex-girlfriend's house in Yorktown last April 6, knowing no one would be home. The district attorney says King intentionally killed the dog, a Yorkshire terrier named Libra, by yanking its collar hard enough to dislocate its head from its spine.
The dead dog was found hidden behind a clothes dryer.
King was identified from blood found beneath the dog's claws.
He could be sent to prison for up to two years when he is sentenced May 19.
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