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Article Archive > Bosco may love motorcycling, but police call it cruelty Bosco may love motorcycling, but police call it cruelty MARLBORO - A Tuckerton man is charged with animal cruelty after he was found driving his dog around on a motorcycle in the rain on Route 18, authorities said. Gyula Szatmari, 56, of Center Street in Tuckerton, was headed southbound on Tennent Road when he was spotted on a motorcycle with a pug in his lap by Sgt. Anthony Lena, of the Monmouth County Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, according to Victor "Buddy" Amato, chief law enforcement officer for the county SPCA. Township Police Officer Ross R. Yenisey was dispatched to intercept Szatmari and located him on Route 18 where he was subsequently pulled over and issued citations for careless driving and the improper transportation of an animal, Amato added. Szatmari told police he was headed home to Tuckerton from his job in Roselle Park when he was stopped with the pug on the motorcycle, Amato added. Szatmari also told police he had been transporting the dog on his motorcycle for years, Amato said, before adding the man was warned against transporting the dog on a motorcycle last year. Szatmari is scheduled to appear in municipal court on Oct. 13. |