November 2024 – Christopher DiGiovanna, 42, was charged with 11 counts of animal abuse, as well as neglect, when Suffolk County police and Town of Brookhaven Animal Control and Code Enforcement executed a search warrant in his Centereach home and found 11 malnourished pups.  According to the SCSPCA, preliminary tests revealed that at least two of the dogs had been exposed to cocaine. SPCA officials further described that nearly all the dogs were found in a small bedroom on urine-and feces-soaked sheets. They seemed to be underweight, flea-ridden, filthy and covered in urine. Living in an environment filled with noxious ammonia, mold and mildew. Fly excrement and cobwebs covered the home’s walls and ceilings and investigators found rats freely scurrying into the broken walls and floors.  Investigators found hypodermic needles and drug paraphernalia in the same room where most of the dogs were found.