Crime Alert, I'm Nancy Grace.

Breaking Crime News now,

Davidson County, North Carolina Sheriff

starts surveilling a home after they get reports

it's overrun with dogs.

They quickly learn an elderly woman lives in the home with a caretaker,

Melven Berry, and 40-0 wolf dog hybrids.

Cops determine the homes uninhabitable, they go inside to remove the woman, they find her severely

injured, and the wolf dogs feral.

Nancy, we now know the wolf dogs did cause the woman's injuries.

She is still in serious condition at a hospital.

It is illegal to own these kinds of dogs in North Carolina and several other states

due to their aggressive and wild nature.

While all efforts were made to send the dogs

to a rehabilitation center,

they were ultimately euthanized

due to their risk to public safety.

Melvin Berry now charged with elder abuse

and 20 counts animal cruelty.

New Smyrna Beach Police called to the local airport after a flight instructor reports

a man with a blue bag crouched on the wing of a plane in a non-public area of a tarmac.

The man reportedly asked the instructor how he, the man with the bag, could fly a plane.

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