Man kidnaps ex and her dog, and gives her a disturbing choice, AZ officials say
A man is accused of kidnapping an ex-girlfriend and taking her and her dog to a desert area, where he killed the dog, Arizona officials said.
Peri Cann, 34, gave the woman “a choice between shooting her dog or luring her boyfriend to the desert,” and he fatally shot the dog when she refused, the Pinal County Attorney’s Office said in an Aug. 5 news release posted to X, formerly known as Twitter.
Cann is now facing kidnapping and animal cruelty charges, prosecutors said.
McClatchy News couldn’t find defense attorney information for Cann in online court records the morning of Aug. 8.
The “violent and disturbing incident” happened in May, according to prosecutors.
Cann left the dog’s remains in the desert, prosecutors said, and his ex later led police to them and provided “a video the defendant sent to her where he admits to killing her dog.”
Cann is in jail on a secured bond of $200,000, prosecutors said.
Pinal County includes Florence, which is about a 65-mile drive southeast from Phoenix.
This story was originally published August 8, 2025 at 2:34 PM with the headline "Man kidnaps ex and her dog, and gives her a disturbing choice, AZ officials say."
.JPG)