{"id":57776,"date":"2020-01-22T07:40:00","date_gmt":"2020-01-22T16:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/man-wanted-for-animal-cruelty-arrested\/"},"modified":"2020-01-22T07:40:00","modified_gmt":"2020-01-22T16:40:00","slug":"man-wanted-for-animal-cruelty-arrested","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/man-wanted-for-animal-cruelty-arrested\/","title":{"rendered":"Man wanted for animal cruelty arrested"},"content":{"rendered":"

Police say a Juneau man indicted last week for felony animal cruelty was arrested late Tuesday night.<\/p>\n

Bradley A. Bethel, 32 — who had a $20,000 warrant out for his arrest — was taken into custody peacefully by Juneau Police Department officers, Lt. Krag Campbell said Wednesday by phone.<\/p>\n

Campbell said officers saw a man matching Bethel’s description enter a residence on the 600 block of West 12th Street. After knocking on the door and receiving no response, officers obtained a search warrant and entered the residence, locating and arresting Bethel, police said.<\/p>\n

Police took Bethel to Lemon Creek Correctional Center. Court proceedings have not yet been scheduled at this time.<\/p>\n

Bethel was indicted<\/a> after an unrelated police investigation turned up video of an individual, allegedly Bethel, torturing kittens.<\/p>\n

Previously, Bethel was arrested in 2013 for his role in a heroin smuggling operation and spent time in federal prison.<\/p>\n

• Contact reporter Michael S. Lockett at 757-621-1197 or mlockett@juneauempire.com.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

He was taken into custody peacefully Tuesday night. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":534,"featured_media":57777,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":9,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,4],"tags":[640,59,75],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-57776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-home","category-news","tag-cops-and-courts","tag-crime","tag-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/534"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57776\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57776"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=57776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}