An Ogden man who pleaded guilty March 23 to four counts of Torture of a Companion Animal for intentionally throwing six three-week-old puppies from a moving vehicle on U.S. 89 between Fruit Heights and Layton in October 2025 was sentenced May 18. Two of the puppies died and one was left seriously injured. The puppies’ mother was later found abandoned near Bountiful Pond. She was in a state of severe emaciation and neglect.

Memphis Lor was sentenced to 120 days in the Davis County Jail, received a $750 fine and was ordered to pay $5,329 in restitution and was also given a probation period where he cannot have a companion or service animal in his residence.

“The severity and intense cruelty of this atrocious behavior shook everyone involved – from bystanders to staff and first responders,” said Director Michelle Hicks, Animal Care of Davis County. “Instead of safely surrendering or rehoming the mother and her puppies, the defendant chose a deliberate and violent course of action that endangered the animals and the public, ultimately resulting in the deaths of two puppies. The surviving animals are thriving because our incredible community intervened where the defendant failed. This was not a matter of circumstance, but of intentional choices. It is because of those heinous and heartless choices that we fully support the sentence imposed in this case.”