longisland

A Town of Hempstead employee is accused of torturing and starving his 4-year-old pit bull.

Police say Maurice Hankins, of Massapequa, was arrested on Wednesday.

Authorities say in February, the 36-year-old left his pit bull tied up outside a Roosevelt home in the cold weather, with no food, water or shelter.

Hankins is a heavy equipment operator for Hempstead Town.

Hankins is facing several charges, including torturing an animal.

The dog was rushed to a shelter for life saving emergency surgery.

<p>Police say Maurice Hankins, of Massapequa, was arrested on Wednesday.</p>

Article 126590 Thumbnail

Long Island

LI | Weather

12123LIWEATHERFIXX5_2023-12-01-17-58-36

Um, we've had good weather but things are kind of going downhill. Now, for the weekend, we've got some rain moving in, but that's ok. Maybe you can stay indoors, decorate your house. The rainy day is going to be Sunday. We do have showers around this evening as well. But tomorrow we'll get a little bit of a dry period. It will be mostly cloudy and mild. Look at the highs this weekend, 56 on Saturday, 54 on Sunday. So Sunday will be the day where it's, uh, you know, pretty wet out there. It will be raining on and off for much of the day. Um, meteorological winter starts today. So go figure the cold spells over. We have those warm temperatures now, but basically December, January, February, it's typically the coldest time of the year. Um, of course, astronomical winter, the official start to winter is not coming until December 21st. But right now, winter is nowhere in sight that cold air is up in Canada. That's where we have the snow. It's mild right now. We're looking at a batch of rain on Long Island for the next few hours by 10 to 11 o'clock tonight, the rain moves out 6 a.m. Saturday. We're in the forties. We start the day with some low clouds and fog. Most of the day is fine. It's going to be a little bit gray. We have some light winds but that mild feel at night showers return light rain Sunday morning, a little bit of a late morning break and look at the afternoon, that rain will kind of be on and off for the rest of the day. So it will be a wet finish to the weekend. Monday. We get a break. Tuesday right now looks nice. We might have a couple of showers on Wednesday but cooler air is going to be building in for Wednesday and Thursday, a little bit of a chill will return to Long Island. So tonight we're in the forties, fifties for the weekend with that rain, Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday looking pretty good through the end of the week. It's nice. It will be chilly with highs in the forties.

https://vod.chdrstatic.com/transcode/abe70394-b85f-46e0-930f-7e259e5bbbe5/abe70394-b85f-46e0-930f-7e259e5bbbe5.transcribe

Hempstead Town worker accused of torturing, starving pit bull