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Sanaa, Yemen (CNN)  -- Umar Farouk AbdulMutallab disappeared in Yemen for more than two months before he allegedly tried to bring down a Northwest Airlines jet with explosives concealed in his underwear.

Investigators want to know if, during that time, he heeded the call to prayer coming from the hills above Yemen's capital, where an Islamic university headed by a fiery cleric has helped the country earn its reputation as an incubator of extremism.

The students who pray at Al-Iman University now, two weeks after that failed Christmas Day attack, say the school has been made a scapegoat, and that what AbdulMutallab is accused of having done is wrong.

"It's against Islam," one says.

"The thoughts in their heads go against Islam," says another.

AbdulMutallab's alleged attempt to ignite explosives as the jet approached Detroit, Michigan, resulted in a fire on his lap -- and serious burns -- before passengers and flight crew subdued him and put out the flames.

Al-Imam's leader is Sheikh Abdel Majid al-Zindani, a provocative cleric with a flaming red beard. The United States considers him a terrorist, accused in 2004 of supplying weapons to al Qaeda.

But in Yemen, al-Zindani is a free and influential man.

Al-Zindani denied CNN's request for an interview but allowed the network to tape at the school he's built from the ground up since the early 1990s.

Every year, thousands of Islamic students from Yemen, Africa and around the world are cocooned in al-Zindani's compound, where they study their faith and are instilled with a strident defense of that faith.

Last year, al-Zindani made a public plea to recruit millions of young men to fight jihad against Israel.

But the students say they don't think AbdulMutallab was ever at the school, and investigators don't appear to have come to ask. Yemeni authorities, it seems, have taken a hands-off approach to the university.

"To my knowledge, no security, no investigation teams came here," political science professor Ismail al-Suhaili said. "Nobody thought that AbdulMutallab was here."

In Yemen, Al-Iman University is highly respected and its leader admired, making it difficult for investigators to find out for sure if the Christmas Day bombing suspect was ever there.

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LOS ANGELES, California (CNN)  -- Misha Di Bono zips around town in her Infiniti sport-utility vehicle, breezy and unconcerned about the price of gas.

Misha Di Bono says people used to make fun of her rolling billboard. She gets $500 a month and free gas.

That's because she gets $500 a month -- plus free gas -- for turning her car into a rolling billboard for Jobing.com, the online recruiting company she works for.

"People used to tease me about the 'Jobing' mobile, and now they're like, 'Oh, we'll get Misha to drive,' " she said, standing next to her decal-covered car.

Jobing.com might be the most extreme example of how companies are helping employees during the current gas crunch. But with gas averaging more than $4 a gallon, more and more companies are trying to figure out incentives to help ease the pain at the pump for their employees.  Watch a rolling billboard for your company Â»

"There's no question companies are feeling the pinch," said John Challenger, the chief executive officer of global outplacement company Challenger, Gray and Christmas. "It's an important issue because no company wants to lose its people."

His firm recently surveyed about 100 human resources executives at white-collar and blue-collar companies. The survey found that 57 percent of the companies offer programs to help ease commutes.

The most popular option was reducing the work week from five eight-hour days to four 10-hour days. Twenty-three percent of the companies polled have such an option, Challenger said.  Calculator: How much do you need to work to pay your gas? Â»

"We're at a watershed time of how people go to work," he said. "Maybe the gas crisis will be the real trigger."

Other incentives: Twenty percent of the companies offer carpools, and 18 percent pay for the cost of public transportation. Only 14 percent of the companies offer telecommuting options, the poll found.

The survey reports that companies had seen a recent jump in carpooling of 43 percent and a 23 percent increase in the use of public transportation. Still, 31 percent of the companies saw no increase in their employees' commuting behaviors.  See gas prices around the country Â»

Some of the companies have had the incentives for years, but it's taken the soaring gas prices for employees to look more closely at the programs.

"It's something that is much more important than two years ago," Challenger said. "It's hard to get away from, because you're constantly going back to the gas station."

He added, "It's hitting people's radar screens now."

One company offering generous commuting benefits is online giant Yahoo, which rewards employees who organize carpools, ride bikes to work and take company shuttles to and from offices. Yahoo rewards these green-conscious commuters with free movie tickets, lunches, massages and other benefits. iReport: How is your company helping you

The company recently hired an "employee transportation coordinator" to help devise even more incentives.

"We've really been listening to our employees to make sure we help them find ways to make the cost of the commute a little less excessive," said Barbary Brunner, a Yahoo vice president.

But it is the Jobing.com vehicle that is most eye-popping. Company spokesman Joe Cockrell says the company started the rolling billboard cars in 2001, but only three executives took part in it.

But now, 60 percent of its 270 employees nationwide drive the cars.   Watch a shift from marketing ploy to employee benefit Â»

"This year, for the first time, we've had a long waiting list for our wrap," Cockrell says. "It's basically a huge sticker that goes on your car and should last in theory about three to four years."

It costs the company about $3,000 to $4,000 to turn the cars into rolling billboards.

They do have rules: The car can't be older than three years, and employees must take a driving safety course and have clean driving records.

Once the cars are wrapped, employees shouldn't flip the bird at other drivers. The company did have to "unwrap" one employee's car because he got too many speeding tickets.

Cockrell says the program has proved to be a huge win-win. "These are mobile billboards, and wherever our employees go, so does that billboard."

Di Bono, who works in community relations, says she loves it, too. She says the cost of filling her tank has doubled in recent years. Now, her company pays her to drive her car.

"They pay for everything," she said. "They pay for me to go to all my appointments and anything I want to do on my own time."

She added, "You'd be a fool not to take advantage of it."

Although many people across the nation are seeking help from their offices, an iReporter in West Virginia recently stopped using his company car and began using his old clunker again.

Maurice Alouf's company paid for his V-8 Chrysler sedan, but he says it guzzled gas on his 80-mile round-trip commute. The company didn't offer a gas allowance, and it was costing him more than $60 a week to fill up.

So he dusted off his 50-mile-per-gallon Geo Metro.

"It's not fun," he said. "I'd like to keep driving [the Chrysler], but I can't."

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question: what did Bono say about this?

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question: What did people used to do according to Misha Di Bono?

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Los Angeles (CNN)  -- Keep debating whether video games are art if you wish. At E3, the world's biggest gaming expo, it's a closed question. Here, video games are definitely art -- and a gallery-style exhibit aims to prove it to as many people as care to look.

"Into the Pixel," a juried art show now in its eighth year, opened on Tuesday, showcasing work that supporters say is finally receiving its just due in the sometimes-cloistered art world.

"There actually is no line at all between the video-game artist and the fine-art world," said Nora Dolan, an independent curator who has worked at galleries including the Ansel Adams Museum in San Francisco and the Whitney Museum in New York and was one of the jurors for the show.

"There's no difference to me. This is as high-quality an exhibit as could be."

Seventeen images were selected for the show out of hundreds of submissions. After showing at the Electronic Entertainment Expo, the exhibit will spend the next year traveling to festivals and conventions around the world.

As may be expected, there were dragons and spaceships, creepy monsters and brave heroes depicted in the show. But other pieces might not be pegged as video-game images at all if not for the setting.

"Oktonok Cay Cannery," by David Guertin from the game "Ratchet & Clank: All 4 One," is a rendering of a highly abstracted shipyard that wouldn't look out of place next to work by Salvador Dali.

"The Pelican," by Andrew Kim from "Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception," is a detailed look at the interior of an empty and vaguely ominous East End London pub.

The prints on display at the opening in the Los Angeles Convention Center were created for video games that range from massive hits from major companies to small, independent games. Some were touched up slightly for their gallery debut, but many are directly lifted from gameplay.

Tyler Breon's entry, "Cronos Battle," from last year's "God of War III," depicts an enormous monster hulking over the game's main character, peering down at him with a look hovering somewhere between perplexed and annoyed.

Breon, a senior character artist for Sony, had his first gallery showing at "Into the Pixel." Video-game art, like other emerging art forms, needed time to earn wider acceptance, he said.

"You look at all kinds of media that were new -- anything that's new, people aren't really comfortable with initially," he said, citing the way comic-book art is now taken seriously, but only after decades of scorn. "I think the longer they're exposed to it, they come to be more comfortable with it."

The past year may have been a turning point in the art world's comfort with video games. The Smithsonian Institution announced that, in 2012, it will be opening "The Art of Video Games," an exhibition spanning four decades of gaming images.

And, last month, the National Endowment for the Arts announced video games would join film, radio and other media that are eligible for government support.

"There are signs that this is really happening," said Martin Rae, president of the Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences which, along with the Entertainment Software Association, sponsors "Into the Pixel."

"We now have a realization within the government that what we do is art," Rae said.

Rae compares video-game art to photography. In its infancy, art communities dismissed photo-taking as a simple act of point-and-shoot, merely copying an image that already existed.

"I think we had the same thing here," he said. "But the public is catching up."

By showcasing the work in "Into the Pixel," Rae and others hope to speed that process.

"Every time traditional fine arts people look at what we have in our industry, they immediately recognize that the artists within our industry are exceptional," he said.

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BOSTON, Massachusetts (CNN)  -- The operator of a trolley that rear-ended another trolley should have been able to see the other vehicle was stopped 480 feet ahead, a federal investigator said Monday.

Passengers walk past firefighters at a Green Line station in Boston after the trolley collision Friday evening.

The trolley driver has told investigators he was text messaging during Friday night's collision, which injured 20 people.

The Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority, which previously had banned operators from using cell phones and other portable devices, now has told employees to leave the devices at home while on duty, National Transportation Safety Board member Debbie Hersman said Monday.

Hersman also noted investigators have determined that the operator may have missed some crucial indications of a stopped trolley ahead on the tracks.  Watch new transit rule on cell phones Â»

"There were several signals -- two green signals, a yellow signal and a red signal -- coming out of the station, and the point of collision occurred 80 feet past that red signal," Hersman said. "We did a site-distance test, and we know that the operator had the ability to see the trolley stopped in front of him 480 feet in advance of the collision."

Boston officials said over the weekend that the trolley operator was using his cell phone. Numerous media outlets, including CNN's Boston affiliates, have identified the driver as 24-year-old Aiden Quinn.

"The operator of the striking train was interviewed at the hospital by two detectives," said MBTA general manager Daniel Grabauskas. "He admitted that he was texting at the time of the accident."

The operator told detectives that, when he looked up, "it was too late as he applied the brake and the train struck the other trolley," Grabauskas said.

He described himself as "outraged."

"We have reinforced for a number of years that the use of cell phones or any other kinds of electronic devices while operating a train or a bus is absolutely prohibited," Grabauskas said.

Though the investigation is ongoing, he said, the two-year employee will be fired if his version of events is confirmed.

None of the injuries was considered life-threatening, the MBTA said.

The collision happened at 7:18 p.m. ET Friday as the Green Line trains were traveling between the Park Street and Government Center stations in downtown Boston.

Both trains were traveling westbound when one train rear-ended the second, an MBTA official said.

A train operator also was text messaging last year in a California train crash that killed 25 people.

CNN's Rob Frehse and Gary Bender contributed to this report.

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BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- Three of five Americans contractors detained in Baghdad have been ordered released by an Iraqi judge, because of insufficient evidence, a court spokesman said Thursday.

In a CNN exclusive, video shows U.S. contractors taken into custody by Iraqi authorities.

The other two other contractors remain in custody, according to Judge Abdul Sattar al-Beeraqdar, a spokesman for Iraq's Higher Judicial Council.

One of the men has been released on bond, the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad confirmed Thursday.

The embassy did not identify the man, who was released Wednesday. However, a spokesman for his employer, Corporate Training Unlimited, said it was Donald Feeney. Judy Feeney, Donald's wife, also confirmed his release.

The contracting company said the release of the others has been delayed because of a procedural issue.

Judy Feeney said her son, Donald Feeney III, and Mark Bridges were to be released Thursday morning, but it may take more time to release the other two, Jason Jones and Micah Milligan.

But al-Beeraqdar said, without naming names, that two contractors were being held on charges involving "illegal substances" found on the men when they were taken into custody.

Those who have been released are not allowed to leave the country because of an ongoing investigation and the judge may want to question them again, according to al-Beeraqdar.

Except for Jones, the detained contractors work for the Fayetteville, North Carolina-based CTU, a security firm headed by the elder Feeney.

An Iraqi judge decided earlier on Wednesday that charges against the five contractors were not warranted and that they could be released, according to an Iraqi security source and a source close to the five.

The sources requested anonymity because of the sensitivity of the case, in which the contractors have been detained since last week for reasons that remain unclear.

The contractors initially had been told they were being held in connection with the May death of another contractor, James Kitterman, said the source close to the five.

But on Monday, according to a judicial source, the men were told they were being held on suspicion of having unregistered weapons.

Still, they were asked about their activities around the time Kitterman was killed, and Iraqi government officials told CNN Monday the five were detained as suspects in connection with Kitterman's slaying.

Kitterman was found bound, blindfolded and fatally stabbed in a car in Baghdad's Green Zone on May 22. The 60-year-old Houston, Texas, resident owned a construction company that operated in Iraq.

The Green Zone is the high-security area in central Baghdad that contains the U.S. Embassy and key Iraqi government buildings. Access to the area, formally known as the International Zone, is tightly controlled.

The five contractors were taken into custody on June 3 in a pre-dawn Green Zone raid by Iraqi and U.S. personnel, the security source told CNN on Sunday.

During the raid, troops also confiscated weapons, the Iraqi security source said. Three of the contractors were suspected of being directly involved in Kitterman's death, the Iraqi source said.

A U.S. Embassy spokesman said the search was an Iraqi operation, but FBI representatives were present at the request of Iraqi authorities.

The five were transferred to a prison within the Green Zone on Friday.

"After this murder inside the Green Zone, a joint investigation committee from U.S. and Iraq sides has been formed to investigate this incident," Iraqi Interior Ministry spokesman Abdul Karim Khalaf told CNN, "and this committee managed to collect a number of indications that those five are linked to this murder."

Iraqi government spokesman Ali al-Dabbagh also said the men were detained based on information linking them to the Kitterman slaying.

Under Iraqi law, after a person is detained, an investigative judge questions the accused and assesses the evidence. The judge then decides whether there is sufficient evidence, and either refers the case to trial or dismisses it.

The Iraqi source said the five had been held in a separate holding area and not with other Iraqi detainees, but spent time in a courtyard with other Iraqi detainees. A U.S. Embassy spokesman said consular officials had visited with them and "they appeared well."

The source close to the suspects said Sunday that each of the five men insisted they had alibis that will clear them and they were eager to tell their stories to a judge.

The Feeneys had known Kitterman for six years from their time in the Green Zone and "respected him," Corporate Training Unlimited spokeswoman Sarah Smith told CNN.

CNN's Alan Duke in Los Angeles and Jomana Karadsheh in Baghdad contributed to this report.

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(CNN) -- A South Florida teenager accused of killing and mutilating 19 cats excitedly described to police how he dissected cats in class, and where to find cats for experimentation, according to police.

Tyler Weinman laughed when police told him they had information he was the cat killer, an arrest document said.

When Miami-Dade police told Tyler Hayes Weinman someone was killing cats in the neighborhood, the 18-year-old reacted by laughing, according to a newly released arrest affidavit made public Monday.

Most of the cats were found in their owners' yards. "One appeared to be posed with a slit down the middle of its stomach," the affidavit states.

On Monday, Weinman pleaded not guilty to more than 40 criminal counts, including multiple charges of felony animal cruelty and burglary. He is out of jail on $249,500 bond and under house arrest wearing an electronic monitor, but is being held for 48 hours for a psychiatric evaluation.

The teen's attorney David Macey said there was a "lynch mob" after his innocent client and accused Judge Mindy Glazer of "prejudging" Weinman.

"He did not kill the cats," Macey told reporters outside the courtroom. "The individual who committed this crime is still running around out there."

The arrest affidavit, which a judge gave prosecutors until Monday to make public, reads like a grisly horror movie and indicates Weinman was knowledgeable of and fascinated with dissection of cats.

During questioning, according to the affidavit, a detective told the teenager that police were informed he was involved in the cat slayings. Weinman replied he heard about the cats and that he told his mother. He told police that a school he had been expelled from was the only school in Miami-Dade that taught how to dissect using cats, according to the affidavit.

The teenager went on to offer several other bizarre and unsubstantiated trivia, including saying that Mexico is the only source for cats used for dissection and describing their size.

Weinman "became excited and animated" as he told the detective about cat dissection research he had discovered on the Internet, the affidavit states.

"Weinman was asked to expound on what he meant and he repeated, with noted excitement, 'It just makes a certain sound, a tearing sound," says the affidavit.

The detective asked Weinman what tools might be used to commit animal cruelty, and teenager replied, "I don't know, but I'm sure they are very well hidden."

How did he think the cats were being captured? The teen answered, "They have to be either tranquilized or poisoned."

Weinman came to the attention of authorities in late April, the affidavit states, as cats began to go missing in a suburban Dade County neighborhood called Whispering Pines just outside Miami, Florida. Police had a few times seen Weinman walking and skateboarding in the middle of the night in the area, at least once wearing black clothing and carrying a dark backpack.

Detectives stopped the teenager and told him about the dead cats. Weinman responded by laughing, according to the arrest affidavit. He was not held at that time.

In May, the teenager was pulled over for a traffic violation and police found a "cutting instrument" on the ground beside his car. According to the affidavit, as an officer questioned the teen, he noticed what appeared to be a cat scratch on his arm.

"I got them from a stray cat that I feed at my mom's house," Weinman said.

The teen "was eager to show" the scratches and took off his shirt so that photographs could be taken, according to the questioning detective's account, which is detailed in the affidavit.

The teenager's divorced parents lived in separate neighborhoods, according to police. His mother resides in Cutler Bay. His father lives in Palmetto Bay, further north of Miami. According to the arrest affidavit, shortly after the teenager talked to police about dissecting cats, he went to live with his father who restricted his son's access to a car.

The killings shifted north as eight dead cats turned up in Palmetto Bay, police said.

At that point, police provided the teen's profile to the Miami-Dade Police Department's Psychological Services Section. Staff doctors met and discussed the case. They determined that the cat killer was likely male and suffered from some kind of conduct disorder.

If the killer was an adult, they concluded, that person would be classified as a sociopath.

In late May, police then got a court order to place a tracking device on the Honda Civic driven by Weinman. The affidavit states the car was tracked to the latest feline victim which had been skinned along the abdomen from the pelvic area to the hind legs. The pelt and genitalia were missing.

The cat killings became headline news across the country. Around that time, Weinman joined a Facebook page called "Catch-The-Cat-Killer."

The teenager is charged with 19 counts of felony animal cruelty, 19 counts of improperly disposing of an animal body and four counts of burglary. He's pleaded not guilty to all of the charges.

Kimberly Segal contributed to this report.

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text: what

text: tools

text: might

text: be

text: used

text: to

text: commit

text: animal

text: cruelty

text: and

text: teenager

text: replied

text: I

text: do

text: n't

text: know

text: but

text: I

text: 'm

text: sure

text: they

text: are

text: very

text: well

text: hidden

text: How

text: did

text: he

text: think

text: the

text: cats

text: were

text: being

text: captured

text: The

text: teen

text: answered

text: They

text: have

text: to

text: be

text: either

text: tranquilized

text: or

text: poisoned

text: Weinman

text: came

text: to

text: the

text: attention

text: of

text: authorities

text: in

text: late

text: April

text: the

text: affidavit

text: states

text: as

text: cats

text: began

text: to

text: go

text: missing

text: in

text: a

text: suburban

text: Dade

text: County

text: neighborhood

text: called

text: Whispering

text: Pines

text: just

text: outside

text: Miami

text: Florida

text: Police

text: had

text: a

text: few

text: times

text: seen

text: Weinman

text: walking

text: and

text: skateboarding

text: in

text: the

text: middle

text: of

text: the

text: night

text: in

text: the

text: area

text: at

text: least

text: once

text: wearing

text: black

text: clothing

text: and

text: carrying

text: a

text: dark

text: backpack

text: Detectives

text: stopped

text: the

text: teenager

text: and

text: told

text: him

text: about

text: the

text: dead

text: cats

text: Weinman

text: responded

text: by

text: laughing

text: according

text: to

text: the

text: arrest

text: affidavit

text: He

text: was

text: not

text: held

text: at

text: that

text: time

text: In

text: May

text: the

text: teenager

text: was

text: pulled

text: over

text: for

text: a

text: traffic

text: violation

text: and

text: police

text: found

text: a

text: cutting

text: instrument

text: on

text: the

text: ground

text: beside

text: his

text: car

text: According

text: to

text: the

text: affidavit

text: as

text: an

text: officer

text: questioned

text: the

text: teen

text: he

text: noticed

text: what

text: appeared

text: to

text: be

text: a

text: cat

text: scratch

text: on

text: his

text: arm

text: I

text: got

text: them

text: from

text: a

text: stray

text: cat

text: that

text: I

text: feed

text: at

text: my

text: mom

text: 's

text: house

text: Weinman

text: said

text: The

text: teen

text: was

text: eager

text: to

text: show

text: the

text: scratches

text: and

text: took

text: off

text: his

text: shirt

text: so

text: that

text: photographs

text: could

text: be

text: taken

text: according

text: to

text: the

text: questioning

text: detective

text: 's

text: account

text: which

text: is

text: detailed

text: in

text: the

text: affidavit

text: The

text: teenager

text: 's

text: divorced

text: parents

text: lived

text: in

text: separate

text: neighborhoods

text: according

text: to

text: police

text: His

text: mother

text: resides

text: in

text: Cutler

text: Bay

text: His

text: father

text: lives

text: in

text: Palmetto

text: Bay

text: further

text: north

text: of

text: Miami

text: According

text: to

text: the

text: arrest

text: affidavit

text: shortly

text: after

text: the

text: teenager

text: talked

text: to

text: police

text: about

text: dissecting

text: cats

text: he

text: went

text: to

text: live

text: with

text: his

text: father

text: who

text: restricted

text: his

text: son

text: 's

text: access

text: to

text: a

text: car

text: The

text: killings

text: shifted

text: north

text: as

text: eight

text: dead

text: cats

text: turned

text: up

text: in

text: Palmetto

text: Bay

text: police

text: said

text: At

text: that

text: point

text: police

text: provided

text: the

text: teen

text: 's

text: profile

text: to

text: the

text: Miami

text: Dade

text: Police

text: Department

text: 's

text: Psychological

text: Services

text: Section

text: Staff

text: doctors

text: met

text: and

text: discussed

text: the

text: case

text: They

text: determined

text: that

text: the

text: cat

text: killer

text: was

text: likely

text: male

text: and

text: suffered

text: from

text: some

text: kind

text: of

text: conduct

text: disorder

text: If

text: the

text: killer

text: was

text: an

text: adult

text: they

text: concluded

text: that

text: person

text: would

text: be

text: classified

text: as

text: a

text: sociopath

text: In

text: late

text: May

text: police

text: then

text: got

text: a

text: court

text: order

text: to

text: place

text: a

text: tracking

text: device

text: on

text: the

text: Honda

text: Civic

text: driven

text: by

text: Weinman

text: The

text: affidavit

text: states

text: the

text: car

text: was

text: tracked

text: to

text: the

text: latest

text: feline

text: victim

text: which

text: had

text: been

text: skinned

text: along

text: the

text: abdomen

text: from

text: the

text: pelvic

text: area

text: to

text: the

text: hind

text: legs

text: The

text: pelt

text: and

text: genitalia

text: were

text: missing

text: The

text: cat

text: killings

text: became

text: headline

text: news

text: across

text: the

text: country

text: Around

text: that

text: time

text: Weinman

text: joined

text: a

text: Facebook

text: page

text: called

text: Catch

text: The

text: Cat

text: Killer

text: The

text: teenager

text: is

text: charged

text: with

text: counts

text: of

text: felony

text: animal

text: cruelty

text: counts

text: of

text: improperly

text: disposing

text: of

text: an

text: animal

text: body

text: and

text: four

text: counts

text: of

text: burglary

text: He

text: 's

text: pleaded

text: not

text: guilty

text: to

text: all

text: of

text: the

text: charges

text: Kimberly

text: Segal

text: contributed

text: to

text: this

text: report

question: Who is on house arrest?

answer: Weinman

text: Weinman

question: what are the charges

answer: 19 counts of felony animal cruelty, 19 counts of improperly disposing of an animal body

text: 19 counts of felony animal cruelty, 19 counts of improperly disposing of an animal body

question: what did Affidavit say

answer: "One appeared to be posed with a slit down the middle of its stomach,"

text: "One appeared to be posed with a slit down the middle of its stomach,"

question: What is Tyler Weinman's age?

answer: 18-year-old

question: where charged with 19 counts of animal cruelty and is on house arrest?

answer: Tyler Hayes Weinman

text: Tyler Hayes Weinman

question: did the police say anything

answer: The killings shifted north as eight dead cats turned up in Palmetto Bay,

text: The killings shifted north as eight dead cats turned up in Palmetto Bay,

question: Who is a cat killer?

answer: Tyler Weinman

text: Tyler Weinman