The Bexar County Sheriff’s Office arrested a woman on animal cruelty charges Monday after a TikTok video led them to discover lemurs at her home.

Kristy Lee Arredondo, 25, is charged with two counts of cruelty to a non-livestock animal, Sheriff Javier Salazar said Monday afternoon.

Salazar said investigators began looking into her after seeing a TikTok video of two caged ring-tailed lemurs in San Antonio. Lemurs are among several exotic animals that are prohibited within Bexar County’s jurisdiction, the sheriff said.

Investigators were able to identify Arredondo after finding her social media business, known as “Alamo City Frenchie Cartel,” which appeared to be a dog breeding business.

When investigators and Animal Care Services visited Arredondo’s home in the 6900 block of Ithaca Forest, they found one caged lemur and the remains of a second lemur thrown behind the back fence of the property.

The living lemur was determined to be in distress, the sheriff said.

“It was not in very good health,” Salazar said. “It was not very well cared for.”

Investigators obtained an arrest warrant for Arredondo and arrested her on Monday.

Cruelty to a non-livestock animal is a third-degree felony that is punishable by up to 10 years in prison and a fine of up to $10,000.

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A San Antonio doctor who invented a device he claims relieves most people of their hiccups is partnering with Texas billionaire Mark Cuban to mass-produce the invention.

Dr. Ali Seifi, a neuro-intensivist at UT Health San Antonio, appeared on the ABC show “Shark Tank” on Friday and won a $250,000 offer from Cuban for 20% equity of his hiccup-relieving device, the Hiccaway.

Seifi’s journey to becoming an inventor began the day when he was making hospital rounds and saw a patient suffering.

“(The patient) said, ‘Doctor, you know, I’m very okay with my brain surgery, but what hurts me now is this hiccup.’ He turned to me and said, ‘Doctor, can you help me please?’” Seifi said in an interview with KSAT 12 News consumer reporter Marilyn Moritz in November.

According to a study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, 92% of people with hiccups who used the device reported that it did relieve their hiccups better than home remedies.

While working on the design, Seifi was suddenly inspired as he watched his son suck on a McDonald’s McFlurry straw.

The McFlurry straw will not stop hiccups, but Seifi was inspired by the engineering and design.

What he came up with was an L-shaped flat, fat plastic straw device with mouthpiece one end and a tiny hold on the other. The precisely-sized hole is the pressure valve, and when the hiccuper sips water through it, he has to suck five times harder than normal. The pressure lowers the diaphragm and interrupts the cycle between the phrenic nerve that controls the diaphragm and the vagus nerve, which controls the epiglottis in the throat, he explained. In short, it fools the brain.

“Shark Tank” gives entrepreneurs the chance to secure business deals to commercialize their products nationally. According to UT Health, Seifi worked with the Office of Technology Commercialization’s John Fritz throughout the years-long journey to patent his idea and license it to a company.

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Animal Care Services and the Animal Defense League are partnering to provide free wellness clinics for pets in some of San Antonio’s underserved neighborhoods.

The goal is to provide preventative care, including vaccinations and microchips for more than 1,000 pets in 2022.

Officials say the vaccination clinics — which are also supported by Petco Love and the San Antonio Parks and Recreation Department — won’t just help protect pets, but people, too.

“By ensuring our city’s pets have vaccinations, we’re making dogs and cats healthier of course; but we’re also protecting our residents from deadly zoonotic disease like rabies,” ACS Director Shannon Sims said. “Our shelters should see fewer pets coming in with easily preventable illnesses and that makes for healthier populations at our local animal agencies as well.”

ACS and ADL will work to target the residents who will be eligible for each month’s vaccination clinic and services will only be available to residents in the targeted neighborhoods.

“Our goal in 2022 is to help protect upwards of 1,000 pets against diseases commonly found in our geographical area while also ensuring they have an increased chance of being reunited with their families should they become separated for any number of reasons. We are thrilled to provide these critical services at no cost to those in historically underserved areas of our city,” said ADL Executive Director Joel McLellan.

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Two brothers are in jail in Hidalgo County accused of beating their stepfather to death for sexually abusing their 9-year-old sister.

Alejandro and Christian Trevino, along with family friend Juan Eduardo Melendez, all 18, are accused of beating 42-year-old Gabriel Quintanilla and leaving him to die in a field in McAllen where his body was discovered by a farmer.

A report from ValleyCentral states that Quintanilla was found Thursday with apparent severe blunt force trauma to his head.

According to KRGV, police reported that a minor, later identified as Quintanilla’s daughter, made an outcry about being inappropriately touched by Quintanilla at an RV park.

“When brothers (Alejandro) and Christian Trevino found out, they became enraged and confronted Gabriel Quintanilla at the residence. A physical fight ensued between the three and the victim Quintanilla left the location on foot,” a news release from Pharr Police Department states.

KRGV reported that Christian Trevino chased Quintanilla to a nearby apartment complex and Melendez drove Alejandro Trevino to the complex where they assaulted Quintanilla again.

The trio left the area and changed vehicles from a red Dodge Charger to a truck before heading back to the complex where they discovered Quintanilla walking alone, Pharr police said in the release.

He was allegedly assaulted a third time, police said, before being placed in the bed of the truck and dumped in a field. Police believe Quintanilla might have still been alive when the teens allegedly dumped his body.

Hidalgo County records show Melendez is charged with engaging in organized criminal activity, murder, aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and possession of marijuana.

Christian Trevino is charged with aggravated assault, murder and engaging in organized criminal activity and Alejandro Trevino is charged with engaging in organized criminal activity and aggravated assault.

MyRGV reported that Alejandro is not charged with murder because Christian and Melendez are thought to have dealt the fatal blows. Police believe brass knuckles were used during at least one of the assaults on Quintanilla.

Quintanilla is Alejandro and Christian’s stepfather and the two brothers have different mothers. They are both half-siblings of the 9-year-old girl, according to MyRGV.

Quintanilla had a warrant for continuous sexual abuse of a child and assault family violence at the time of his death, according to police.

Each teen is being held on at least a $1 million bond.

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A high school biology teacher in New York has pleaded not guilty after she allegedly administered a COVID-19 vaccine to her son’s teenage friend.

According to ABC7NY, Laura Parker Russo was seen administering a vaccine to the 17-year-old in a Snapchat video.

Russo can be heard in the video telling the teen the shot was a Johnson & Johnson vaccine.

“Yeah — this needle is like smaller than this needle ok, yeah, and I measured it — ha ha ha you’ll be fine, I hope,” Russo can be heard saying.

CBS News reported that Russo was arrested and charged with New York State Education Law Unauthorized Practice of a Profession after the teen’s mother called the police.

Despite her lack of a medical license, Russo’s defense attorney Michael Dergarabedian argued that “she’s got parents and people who live with her that have diabetes, and she’s constantly giving medicine.”

How Russo obtained the vaccine remains unclear and the only vaccine brand that has been labeled as approved for 5-17-year-olds is Pfizer.

According to FOX13, the teen asked Russo to give him the vaccine on New Year’s Eve because he wanted to get vaccinated but his parents were against it.

“It’s not funny when you are breaking the law and injecting children,” said Nassau District Attorney Anne Donnelly. “Our investigation is continuing into where she purportedly got the vaccine. My concern is that there will be other copycats out there.”

Dergarabedian told ABC7NY that Russo, who has six children, “wasn’t making money. She wasn’t trying to hurt anybody. So figure it out yourself. She was trying to do good.”

The vial Russo used is reportedly being tested and she is due back in court on Tuesday.