YOUNGSTOWN — Zyquan D. Robinson, 23, of Youngstown was sentenced Thursday to 10 days in the Mahoning County jail, five years of probation and three months of house arrest after pleading guilty to one count of felony cruelty to companion animals and one misdemeanor count in October.

Robinson also must perform 50 hours of community service each of the five years of his probation. Robinson is banned for life from owning or possessing a companion animal. Judge Maureen Sweeney of Mahoning County Common Pleas Court handed down the sentence.

Robinson was charged after an investigation by Campbell police after an abused dog was found wrapped in a shower curtain July 22, 2023, in a garbage receptacle at a home in the 600 block of Matawan Avenue in Campbell.

The person who alerted authorities about the dog had been hired to remove debris from inside the house and said the dog had been left there since his last pickup at that site July 20, according to Campbell police.

The man told police he had seen dogs of a similar breed at the house across the street at 640 Matawan, but police could not contact anyone at that house.

Police opened the shower curtain and found the brindled pit bull emaciated and in generally bad condition. They preserved the animal’s body and sent it for an analysis by a veterinarian in Darlington, Pa., police said.

Katherine Jones, county assistant prosecutor, said the investigation showed that Robinson was the owner of the dog. The necropsy of the dog’s body showed that it had a “body-condition score of 1 out of 5, so she was severely thin and emaciated. She had visible and palpable ribs, hips, vertebrae” and other areas, indicating it was emaciated, Jones said.

The necropsy also showed that the dog had “undigested underwear and rope material found in its stomach.” The dog likely died from “gastric and linear foreign body obstruction, and those types of obstruction cause severe dehydration, anorexia and eventual death if immediate veterinary care and surgical intervention is not sought,” Jones said.

There was no food in the dog’s body, Jones said. It is not known why those materials were inside the dog, Jones said.

“It was an extensive investigation,” police officer Jim Conroy, who serves as the city’s humane officer, told the Vindicator in 2023. “Through canvassing the neighborhood, going door to door, we developed some good leads and gathered some good evidence,” he said.

Conroy said Robinson lived at the house at 640 Matawan, but moved out the same weekend the dog’s body was found.

“I was glad we could get a felony charge on him,” Conroy said. “From the necropsy we had done, the vet was able to tell us that the dog suffered tremendously, and suffered for days before it died.”

Conroy added, “It’s a very serious problem. I’ve never seen it worse than it is right now, and it only seems to be getting worse,” he said in September 2023. Conroy said he would like to see Ohio change its laws to require stricter standards for animal ownership. He said many problems could be avoided just by requiring that companion animals be spayed or neutered.