SAN ANTONIO (AP) _ A San Antonio man involved in the 2007 torture and killing of several cats must serve three years in prison.
A judge in San Antonio on Wednesday sentenced 24-year-old Jordan Scott Mitchell. Mitchell in February pleaded no contest to three counts of animal cruelty.
Investigators say the remains of the cats had been taped to some plywood.
A co-defendant, 21-year-old Austin George Patterson, in June was sentenced to eight years in prison for the same cruelty charges.
The San Antonio Express-News reported Thursday that both men acknowledged a fourth killing in which a cat was doused in gasoline and burned alive while tied to a tree.
Mitchell told police that Patterson located the cats from families who posted ads on Craigslist seeking new homes for their pets.
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