A woman in California may be getting deported because of her barking pooches.
Ruth Montaño, 39, said she stepped out of her Bakersfield home on New Year’s Eve to buy ingredients for a dinner she was planning. She said she returned to her trailer to find six police dogs and two police officers who she claims harassed her. The officers told Montaño her two small dogs – a Chihuahua and a poodle – were disturbing the neighbors.
“I told them that we had not done anything wrong,” Montaño told Fox News Latino.
She claims the officers were shouting slurs at her and threw her against a police car in front of her three children.
Montaño was charged with one misdemeanor count of resisting arrest and one infraction of maintaining an animal that makes excessive noise. Police claim she became agitated when they confronted her and she kicked a police officer.
She denies the allegations.
“One of the officer’s faces was so angry and began telling us that we Hispanics are trash,” said Montaño. “I told them not to disrespect me in front of my children and that just how they demand respect so did we.”
Kern County Sheriff’s spokesman Ray Pruitt would not comment on the case.
Montaño spent a week in jail. While she was detained, she was flagged by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement because she is undocumented. She is now facing a deportation order.
