Bangor Township dog-stomper gets up to a decade in prison

His wrists shackled, Jeremy K. Haire choked on his words as he apologized for stomping his fiancée’s 2-pound puppy to death. “I feel really bad for all this,” said Haire Monday as he waited for Bay County Circuit Judge Joseph K. Sheeran to tell him how much time he’d be spending in prison. “I could sit here and blame all this on alcohol, on PTSD, but it really just comes down to me.” The 29-year-old Haire in September pleaded no contest to single counts of torturing or killing an animal, domestic violence and violation of probation. The charge of killing an animal is a felony usually punishable by up to four years in prison, but because Haire is a habitual offender and was on probation for assault with intent to commit second-degree criminal sexual conduct at the time of his crime, the penalty is doubled to eight years.

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