Woman arrested in dispute over puppies

OGDEN— A woman was arrested Sunday night after a dispute over some pit bull puppies where a man is said to have threatened the dogs' sellers with a gun.

"For the want of two little puppies, you have a whole lot of strange people, you have a whole riot in the parking lot of Shopko, you have one person diving onto the hood of car and one person getting injured," said Ogden Police Lt. Scott Sangberg.

The confrontation was part of a larger argument concerning rights to the puppies. Police said Tonya Woodin-Kriscka had been watching a female pit bull that belonged to one of the victims when Woodin-Kriscka's male pit bull mated with the female. The victim's husband agreed to let Woodin-Kriscka have first pick of the nine-puppy litter, but apparently his wife refused.

Sangberg said when the couple was later trying to sell the puppies in the Shopko parking lot at 1110 Jefferson Ave., Woodin-Kriscka and her boyfriend came and "supposedly pulled a gun and snatched two of the puppies."

The incident escalated as Woodin-Kriscka and her boyfriend went to drive away with the puppies and someone jumped on the hood of the vehicle only to fall off and sustain minor injuries, Sangberg said. Police later located Woodin-Kriscka but did not find her boyfriend or the puppies.

Woodin-Kriscka was arrested and booked into Weber County Jail on suspicion of aggravated assault.

— Emiley Morgan