A woman left her Goldendoodle at a JetBlue ticket counter after finding out she needed to fill out paperwork to fly with her dog as a service animal, according to Las Vegas police.
“We don’t believe we have to say this … but please don’t leave your dog at the airport – or anywhere else,” the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department said in a post shared with X on Wednesday, February 18.
Photos shared by police showed the Feb. 2 incident at Harry Reid International Airport, where a woman appears to have tied her 2-year-old Goldendoodle to a luggage-sized metal carrier at a JetBlue ticket counter and left.
Flight attendants told police she left her dog behind after failing to fill out paperwork that would have allowed her to travel with her dog as a dog, according to police.
“When the necessary documents were not completed, the passenger was denied boarding,” the police said. “He then left the dog behind and proceeded to the airport to the departure gate.”
The woman was identified as Germiran Brysonaccording to police booking logs obtained by the Las Vegas Review-Journal.
Bryson now faces charges of abandoning an animal, torturing, injuring, abandoning or starving an animal, resisting a public official, and making a false statement to obstruct a public official, court records show. Us Weekly Thursday, February 19, show.
The attorney was not immediately listed in court records.
After Bryson left his dog, a video shared by police shows two airport workers approaching the Goldendoodle, which can be seen wagging its tail in response.
Then one of the workers bends over and pet the dog, the photos show.
Police eventually found Bryson at the airport gate and questioned him about the alleged abandonment, according to authorities.
Bryson was accused of telling police he left his Goldendoodle because he wasn’t allowed to fly with it “and said the dog had a tracking device — meaning it was acceptable to leave the animal and come back to him,” police said.
The police then took Bryson back to safety and it is alleged that he became “hostile” when they tried to arrest him, according to the police.
After that, Animal Protective Services took care of her dog for 10 days, police said.
Bryson did not pick up his dog at the time, according to police
The dog, which has been named JetBlue, will be placed up for adoption, police said.
JetBlue is now in the care of Retriever Rescue of Las Vegas, according to a Facebook post from the nonprofit rescue organization.
In a February 18 Facebook post, the rescuers said that while her abandonment was “sad,” what “came next was amazing.”
Multiple requests and inquiries to locate JetBlue have been received by the organization, rescuers said in the post.
“This sweet boy is amazing,” the caption read. It’s really amazing. And after all she’s been through, the thought of being dumped again makes us very wary.
“We will be very intentional in choosing his forever family,” the document continued. “You deserve stability. Safety. Commitment. A promise of a lifetime. In a powerful way, JetBlue has brought awareness to rescues, to abandonment laws, and to the fact that dogs are not abandoned.”
The rescuers also reminded the public that in addition to JetBlue, the organization has other “amazing dogs like him who are waiting for their second chance.”
