The man who stabbed a San Diego police dog during a dispute with officers in January pleaded guilty on Tuesday, April 13, reports CNS.
35-year-old Dedrick Daknell Jones pleaded guilty to charges of animal cruelty and resisting arrest.
His sentence for stabbing SDPD K-9 Titan on January 25 after a lengthy standoff with police officers is scheduled for May 11.
Police explained what happened back in January through a thread on the San Diego Police Department's Twitter account.
The incident occurred when two officers were responding to a call of a man trespassing a local business in the 3300 block of Barnett Avenue.
According to police, Jones refused to comply with officers and kept reaching for his bag. When officers attempted to put him in handcuffs, he punched the officers and entered a nearby military property, and stood on a shipping container waving a knife.
That went on for four hours, according to police.
After finally getting him off the shipping container with the help of the Emergency Negotiation Team, Jones still refused to put the knife down. When the officer released the K9 Titan to assist, the man stabbed the dog.
Titan survived but had to receive over 100 stitches. The San Diego Police Department said that Titan "is doing well and in good spirits."
Photo: San Diego Police Department