SEATTLE - Getting your dog stolen is bad enough, but someone trying to use your loss for their gain is just plain mean. That's what Police say happened to a local couple when a teen tried scamming them to get their puppy back. While the accused robber's been busted, Honey the pup is still nowhere to be found.
The dog's owner Amelia Chavez says honey disappeared from her home on April 13. "She was in the backyard and she got out through a little hole in the fence and within 10 minutes someone said that they saw her in the street and a car picked her up," said Chavez.
Chavez is heartbroken over the loss of her little 17 month old blue nose pitbull. She says someone is a white Lexus grabbed the dog at the corner of 20th and Union.
"We ran around we just thought she'd be running around we didn't think anyone would pick her up and we ran around asking everyone we saw on the streets," said Chavez.
Amelia and her boyfriend Brandon put up flyers offering a reward all over their Capitol Hill neighborhood. That's when 17 year old Ceandrik Davis approached them and said he'd bought the dog from the person who took it.
"The entire time he was I have your dog. So, you give me the reward and I will give your dog back," said Chavez.
Brandon agreed to get into Davis' car with $800 in reward money. But, Amelia was suspicious and told a Seattle Police Officer that was patrolling the area. Even after the Officer warned Brandon he stayed in Davis' car.
"They had a selected area where the dog was, they went there and then when they got there said he was going to go get the dog and be right back," said Chavez.
According to Amelia, Davis and Brandon parked in front of a Central District home to get the dog. Prosecutors say that's when Davis threatened Brandon with a gun and walked off with the cash.
"Bad things happened and we never got the dog back," said Chavez.
Police eventually caught Davis in downtown Seattle the next day. They recovered a gun but the reward money was gone.
Amelia is worried sick about Honey. She says the puppy needs its shots but most of all needs to return to the people who care for her.
"She is loved, she does have a home, and we just want her back," said Chavez.
Ceandrik Davis will be formally arraigned in court on May 3 on charges of first degree robbery and unlawful possession of a firearm. King County Prosecutors have decided to charge the 17 year old who has a length rap sheet as an adult.
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