Woman Arrested After She Pushed Her Dog in a Lake, Watched It Drown

Woman Arrested After She Pushed Her Dog in a Lake, Watched It Drown
A New Hampshire woman faces an animal cruelty charge after pushing her 11-year-old dog into a lake and watching it drown. Merrimack Police/CNN
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A New Hampshire woman faces an animal cruelty charge after pushing her 11-year-old dog into a lake and watching it drown.

Nancy Bucciarelli was arrested on June 14. She is accused of taking her golden Labrador Retriever to Wasserman Park in Merrimack, about 29 miles south of Concord, on June 8 and then pushing the animal from a dock where it struggled to swim and eventually drowned, police said in a news release.