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The owner of Angel Paws Pet Cremation was arrested for allegedly collecting payments to cremate pets but left them in a freezer and distributed the wrong ashes.

Angel Paws Pet Cremation appeared to be a nondescript San Marcos business, where grieving clients brought in their dearly departed pets — until they stopped getting their calls returned, and the building began to smell.

Angel Paws owner Christopher Settle was arrested Tuesday for alleged grand theft, in a scheme prosecutors say involved taking in pets for cremations, collecting the payment, and leaving them in freezers to rot as he distributed false ashes.

The San Marcos station of the San Diego County Sheriff’s Department

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