Overview
- A jury on June 17, 2026 found Kwong (Tony) Chun Sit guilty on 11 felony counts of animal cruelty plus multiple counts related to destroying evidence while his girlfriend, Tingfeng Liu, was convicted of accessory and evidence-related charges.
- Sit faces a maximum of 13 years and 11 months in prison and Liu faces up to four years if convicted on all counts, and both are jailed on high bail with orders to surrender passports and have no access to animals.
- Necropsies on nine recovered dogs showed eight died of heat stroke after being kept in small crates inside a hot van and one dog, Rosie, had blunt force trauma, while two dogs had been cremated before investigators reached them.
- Investigators opened the case after a dog owner reported a suspicious text in June 2025, and detectives recovered remains at multiple crematoriums that prosecutors say Sit and Liu used while impersonating owners to authorize cremations.
- The defendants ran Happy K9 Academy, which advertised multi-week boarded training for hundreds to thousands of dollars, raising questions about oversight of paid pet-care services as sentencing and any appeals move forward.