LAKE STATION, Ind. (WLS) -- Prosecutors have asked Indiana State Police to investigate the heat deaths of 10 dogs.
Nineteen German Shepherds were being transported to a training facility last month when they became overheated in a box truck in Lake Station, Indiana. Ten of them died.
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Police said the driver, who picked the dogs up from a flight at O'Hare Airport and was bound for a training facility in Michigan, was unaware that the air conditioning in the cargo area of the truck had failed in the sweltering heat.
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On Thursday, PETA called the investigation "a step in the right direction."
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