Dognapping arrests: 2 teenage girls arrested for stealing 10-year-old dog “Milkshake” from Bronx apartment

LONGWOOD, Bronx (WABC) — Police arrested two teenage girls for stealing a 10-year-old dog named “Milkshake” in the Bronx.

The female dachshund was taken from an apartment on Tiffany Street around 8 p.m. on May 4.

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Authorities released photos of the two suspects. The two 16-year-old girls now face charges of robbery and harassment.

Milkshake's owner, Monica Montanez, said this was the longest she had been away from her dog and that his absence had been distressing. It is not yet known whether Milkshake was returned safely to his family.

“Going into my house is very deafening, very quiet, you know, like you're facing silence with no snoring, no ringing, no nails on the floor,” Montanez said.

She said the day Milkshake was stolen from her apartment, she was throwing a birthday party for her 6-year-old son.

Montanez said it was the first time Milkshake joined the children as they played in the apartment hallway, and soon after, she was nowhere to be found.

“We jumped into action and started searching the building, so the only logical thing we could do, at 9 p.m., we were filing a police report, so the next day we were putting out flyers in the post- noon,” she said.

“Just bring her back, you think you love her? I love her even more,” Montanez said.

Anyone with additional information is asked to call the NYPD Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477) or, for Spanish, 1-888-57-PISTA (74782) .

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