Indiana prosecutors and police provide update on investigation into heat deaths of 10 German Shepherds in Lake Station in 2023

LAKE STATION, Ind. (WLS) — Prosecutors and Indiana State Police will soon provide updates on the investigation into the heat deaths of ten dogs.

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Nineteen German Shepherds were being transported to a training facility last month when they overheated in a box truck in Lake Station, Indiana, in August 2023. Ten of them died.

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According to police, the driver who picked up the dogs from a plane at O’Hare Airport and was taking them to a training facility in Michigan was unaware that the air conditioning in the truck’s cargo area had failed in the sweltering heat.

Following the incident, PETA called the investigation “a step in the right direction.”

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Indiana State Police and the Attorney General’s Office will comment on the investigation at 10 a.m. Tuesday.

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