A northwest suburban man faces multiple animal-cruelty charges after abandoning his mobile home with dozens of starving and dead cats and other pets inside.
David Heim, 56, formerly of the 7500 block of Elmhurst Road in Des Plaines, was charged Thursday with 53 misdemeanor counts of cruel treatment after Cook County sheriff's deputies found the cats, along with a rabbit, snake and turtles in the filthy mobile home, according to the sheriff's office.
On July 29, a sheriff's officer responded to an "animal problem" at the home, with a neighbor reporting the owners had left a couple of days earlier and there were still pets inside.
The officers noticed a …
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