Cat Eating Suspect Arraigned, Still In Jail

Eldon B. Lewis, 27, of Kimball, has been arraigned and appeared in court again on Wednesday, Oct. 23. Lewis is accused of a Class 3A felony, intentional cruelty to an animal, during an alleged Oct. 8 incident in Kimball in which he killed and ate a pet cat.

Mark L. Kovarik, attorney for Kimball County, said in a complaint that Eldon Lewis “then and there … knowingly and intentionally, cruelly mistreated an animal by intentional torture, repeated beating, or mutilation of the animal.”

In addition to the felony, Lewis is charged with violating a harassment protection order, a Class 2 misdemeanor. The second count reads that Lewis, between September 20 and 21 knowingly violated a harassment protection order after it was serviced. Lewis is being represented by Stacy Bach.

Lewis continues to be housed in the Kimball County Jail with a $50,000 bond on the animal cruelty charge and no bond on the violation of the harassment protection order.