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[Lady Cop]

i think he was eating the local mushrooms.




PHOENIX (CBS5) -
A transient accused of skinning and eating a cat while camping inside a Phoenix warehouse and music venue has been sentenced to two years in prison.

Russell Hofstad, 24, was also sentenced Wednesday to four years' probation after his prison term.

Hofstad pleaded guilty July 25 to burglary and cruelty to animals.
Police said Hofstad broke into a warehouse on 25^th Street near Jefferson Street. Officers were called to the scene because of loud music playing. Once inside, they said Hofstad was wearing face paint and appeared to be under the influence of something.

He told police he was homeless and hungry and had no place to go after being released from jail earlier this month.

Police said they saw the skinned cat in the middle of the warehouse. Hofstad told officers he hit the cat with a stick, stabbed it and then skinned it with a butter knife. The cat's internal organs were found in a cooler. Police said Russell was wearing the cat's tail around his neck on a rope, along with a piece of the cat's internal organs.

Hofstad told officers he wanted to taxidermy the cat, and save its skeleton for a party decoration.