A former Lothian man entered an Alford plea Tuesday to hurting his girlfriend's daughter's puppy so seriously that the hound mix was euthanized due to internal injuries.
Glenn Allen Townsend Jr., 39, was sentenced to a 90-day suspended jail term and ordered by an Anne Arundel County judge to spend a year on supervised probation with the possibility of anger management treatment, according to prosecutors and court documents. Under the plea, he did not admit throwing the dog, Hope, to the ground after she chewed his wallet Nov. 12. He acknowledged that prosecutors had evidence to convict him.
