A man suspected of killing and luring a cat in Orange County was arrested Wednesday, police confirmed.
Officers served as a search warrant at the suspect’s home on Wilshire Avenue to arrest a man the Santa Ana Police Department described as a “serial cat killer.”
In an Instagram video posted Wednesday, the department identified the suspect as Alejandro Acosta Oliveros, 45, of Santa Ana.
(Santa Ana pd)
Police confirmed to KTLA’s Chip Yost that Oliveros has already confessed what he did, but they are still trying to grasp how big the case is.
As far as the number of cats Oliveros killed is concerned, the detective had no specific numbers or estimates as of Wednesday afternoon, but they believed it was “a lot.”
Santa Ana residents were talking to each other for weeks, seducing on camera and grabbing cats from their beloved homes and taking off, leaving their families destroyed, warning the public, especially pet owners.
Police said Oliveros is believed to be the person behind many, if not all, of the theft of these cats. This especially happened in Westminster last month.
Surveillance video, filmed on March 21, showed the moment when a man believed to be Oliveros fell into a club bar, a 10-month-old Bengal Links cat.
Clubber was eventually returned to his home, but Oliveros had never been caught before.
As if reports of catnapping were not yet tragic enough, neighbors began posting on social media sites such as Nextdoor, saying that cats were also killed.
“We looked at our camera. This guy just grabbed a neighbor’s cat and seemed to have taken him with his legs tied around 5pm,” read one of the following door posts. “He walked down Shelton Street towards McFadden. The cat has black brown spots.”
Another post said the man injected a cat that later died. “Hello! I’m near El Salvador Park. My neighbor’s cat was killed by a man who injected some substance.”
Again, the investigation is ongoing, but police said they hope to request some files in a few days.
