A former Floyd County resident who now lives in Inkster, Michigan was arrested last week in Rome after reports said he allegedly purchased a cat from a Rome pet store and then proceeded to burn it alive several hours later.  Reports added that on the same day, thirty-year-old Zachary Ky Murphy allegedly threw a fake pipe bomb into Alpha Smoke Shop on Turner McCall Blvd.  Murphy is charged with aggravated cruelty to animals, terroristic threats and acts and hoax devices.

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