LAS VEGAS (KLAS) -- The man accused of dumping a dead dog in a crate next to a dumpster near downtown Las Vegas told police he was playing video games while the dog was left outside in 109-degree heat, documents show.

On the morning of July 11, police responded to a report of a deceased dog inside a kennel near a dumpster in the 2600 block of Valley Street after a man who lived nearby called 911, according to an arrest report.

Officers located a kennel that was partially covered by a white sheet. The dog, which was a French Bulldog between the ages of 5 and 8, was "bloated, not moving, stiff, and it had a bad odor," the report said. A necropsy listed the body as "in an advanced stage of decomposition."

The necropsy of the dog showed his death as "suspected non-accidental," and said the

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