Thursday, May 3, 2012
Rocco Garruto is dragging Doreen Longo and her lawyer into Middlesex County Superior Court today, charging her complaints about her dead puppy are putting him out of business
The case between the owner of an Avenel pet store and the buyer of a puppy from that store that died of a dreaded canine disease has just ratcheted up a few notches. Doreen Longo, whose German shepherd puppy passed away from parvovirus less than two weeks after she bought the dog from Fancy Pups, was served with papers to appear in Middlesex County Superior Court in New Brunswick today. Both Longo and her attorney, Edward Harrington Heyburn, are being ordered into court by Fancy Pups owner Rocco Garruto, who is seeking a restraining order against Longo for her Internet posts and her attorney for a video of Garruto he posted to his law firm's webpage and Youtube account. Garruto's attorney, Milton Bouhoutsos, Jr., accused Longo and Heyburn…
The owner of puppy that died of parvovirus is being hauled into court by the pet store owner she's complaining about. Should that be OK?
Doreen Longo, the owner of a German Shepherd puppy that died less than two weeks after she bought it, has been vehement about accusing the pet store owner of selling sick animals. Rocco Garruto, the owner of the Avenel store, Fancy Pups, pleaded guilty in court in February to two counts of fraud in other pet purchase cases. Now he's trying to get a restraining order against Longo to get her to shut up because her complaints have killed his puppy business, he said. Do you think a customer has the right to complain on the Internet about a business she finds unsatisfactory? Is enough enough? Or is it not enough if the customer is trying to warn other shoppers about a bad experience? Take the poll and post your thoughts!
Friday, April 13, 2012
Rocco Garruto, the owner of Fancy Pups, has accused one of the customers who bought a sick dog from him with trying to attack him.
Doreen Longo has been to Woodbridge Municipal Court several times in the last few months, as she follows the legal wranglings of the pet store owner whom she says sold her and others sick and dying puppies. This time, though, the legal woes are hers. Longo is being sued by Rocco Garruto, the owner of Fancy Pups in Avenel, for attempted assault charges. In a summons she received, Longo is being accused of trying to physically harm Garruto while they were in a waiting room outside Woodbridge Municipal Court earlier this year. Longo, a Toms River resident, said she was speechless when she received the summons, which was filed on March 29 and requires her to be in court today. "[Garruto] is simply unbelievable," she said. The summons accuses…
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Monday, April 2, 2012
Doreen Longo launched a lawsuit on behalf of Sasha, the dead puppy she bought from Fancy Pups. Now store owner Rocco Garruto is suing back.
The owner of the Avenel puppy store accused of selling sick animals said in a legal brief that the negative publicity has caused his store sales to plummet 60 percent. Rocco Garruto, owner of Fancy Pups, filed a countersuit against Doreen Longo, who bought a German Shepherd puppy from Garruto in December that died of a deadly contagious canine disease 10 days after she bought the dog. In the legal papers, Garruto accused Longo of "waging an all out war" against him that included posting pictures "of a dead puppy" on the Internet and costing him tons of business. He also accused her of libel and slander, and of making defamatory statements, such as calling Garruto a "puppy killer" - all of which he claimed has caused customers who had put…
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Sunday, February 26, 2012
Mark J. Bellotti, the attorney who argued for Fancy Pups owner Rocco Garruto, is now facing five years in jail and a $100,000 fine in his own fraud case.
The attorney who was defending the owner of Avenel's Fancy Pups pet store against accusations of consumer fraud pleaded guilty himself Tuesday of committing $2.6 million in fraudulent mortgage loan applications. Mark J. Bellotti, the attorney who defended Fancy Pups owner Rocco Garruto in Woodbridge Municipal Court earlier this month, admitted his complicity in conspiracy and theft charges just days later in Freehold Superior Court on Feb. 21. Bellotti, along with co-conspirator Jonathan P. Domash, a mortgage broker, admitted to filing false paperwork to fraudulently obtain mortgages on 7 homes that all went into foreclosure, according to a press release from the NJ Attorney General's Office. A 55-year-old Marlboro attorney, Bellotti …
Friday, February 10, 2012
Rocco Garruto, a pet store owner charged with selling sick pets, pleaded guilty to two counts of fraud in Woodbridge Municipal Court - and also told the judge he wasn't an American citizen.
The owner of the Avenel pet store charged with selling unfit animals pleaded guilty to two counts of fraud in Woodbridge Municipal Court yesterday. The Middlesex County Dept. of Consumer Affairs had charged Rocco Garruto, the proprietor of Fancy Pups, with violating the state's 'Puppy Lemon Law" when he sold sick animals to unsuspecting buyers, and then refused to reimburse the owners for the pets and veterinary bills when the dogs got ill, and in some cases, died. Appearing before Judge Kevin Morse, Garruto will pay a $1,000 fine plus $1,900 restitution in one case, and a $2,000 fine in another. The fines have 'significantly escalated' from four previous cases in which Garruto pleaded guilty, said attorney Edward Harrington Heyburn. Six …
Thursday, February 9, 2012
The owner of the pet store who is accused of selling sick puppies has an appointment in Woodbridge Municipal Court again today.
The owner of the Avenel puppy store being sued by the Middlesex County Dept. of Consumer Affairs (MCDCA) is going to be back in court again today. Rocco Guarruto, the proprietor of Fancy Pups, is scheduled to answer charges in Woodbridge Municipal Court that he violated the state's Puppy Lemon Law when he sold sick animals to owners who had problems getting refunds when the puppies got sick and sometimes died. Garruto was in court several weeks ago and was ordered to come back to make arrangements for repaying the puppy owners fees that include the cost of the animals plus money paid to veterinarians for their care. Doreen Longo was at the earlier court hearing and plans on being back in Woodbridge today. "Everytime he's in court, I'm …
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Tuesday, January 24, 2012
Doreen Longo, whose puppy Sasha died of parvo in December, will be in court to get some justice from Fancy Pups in Avenel, who sold her the sick pooch.
It's been almost a month since Sasha, the German Shepherd puppy Doreen Longo brought home from a Woodbridge pet store as a Christmas present for her daughter, died a bloody, painful death from parvovirus. So far, Longo hasn't gotten the one thing she's wanted: to get the township, the county, or the state to shut down the store from which she bought her puppy and which has been charged with selling puppies stricken with the disease. "I am so disgusted, it's not even funny," Longo said from her Toms River home. She said she's done nothing but try to get someone to go after Rocco Guarruto, the owner of Fancy Pups, and she said she's gotten little satisfaction for her efforts. The one hope she had was a lawsuit the Middlesex County Dept. of …
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5:45 pm on Thursday, May 10, 2012
POSTPONED.... Victims will have to wait another 30 and then some. New Attorney Milton Bouhoutsos Jr asked for this postponement. more ›