Wednesday, February 12, 2020, the Hidalgo County Sheriff’s Office received a call from a concerned citizen reporting he had seen a video of a man torturing a dog on the social media app, Facebook. Sheriff’s investigators reviewed the Facebook video and observed a man had hung a small puppy by his neck from a tree. Sheriff’s investigators were able to obtain an address where the video had been generated. Sheriff’s deputies responded to the address and met with Claudio Gomez, who later provided a voluntary statement admitting to hanging a dog that didn’t belong to him out of boredom. Gomez was arrested, transported ...