Cops responding to a domestic dispute in Queens Sunday found a squalid apartment filled with endangered children, abused pit bulls, dangerous snakes and a lizard.
Cops took Jasean Holmes from the run-down Richmond Hill flat, and arrested them both after seeing evidence of animal cruelty and danger to the five children.
Sources said cops have been called to the house dozens of times on domestic disputes, but never arrested the father because his wife would not press charges.
But this time, sources said, Holmes, 29, tangled with his wife after an EMS unit responded, and crew members witnessed the attack.
The EMS crew had actually arrived on the scene first around 8 a.m. in response to a call that someone had been bitten by a dog.
There, they saw the couple squabbling outside their home, and called police when the man started beating his wife and kicking one of the dogs.
Cops who arrived found four children, ages 7 through 11, in their apartment, along with five adult pit bulls, 10 pit bull puppies, two boa constrictor snakes and a lizard.
Holmes was charged with aggravated cruelty to animals, torturing or injuring animals, acting in a manner injurious to a child, and assault for allegedly hitting his wife.
It was unclear if the woman would face any charges.
Neighbors at the three-family house at 125th Street said the couple was always at each other, and abusing the dogs and kids.
“They’re always fighting and beating each other up,” said a neighbor who said cops had to pull the couple apart.
“It’s a non-stop thing. He was still hitting her and they grabbed him. They put them in two cars and they were still fighting. I went over and talked to cops and he was cursing me. He’s crazy.”
Another neighbor said Holmes would put snakes on the kids if they were misbehaving, and beat the dogs if they didn’t do tricks on command.
Inside, cops found an apartment littered with debris and dog feces.
Cops took the children to a nearby hospital for evaluation. They were placed in the temporary custody of the city’s Administration for Children’s Services.
The city’s Animal Care & Control department removed the animals, and will care for them while the matter is investigated, an official said.
A neighbor said if one of the snakes would get stuck up a tree, Holmes would send one of the children to climb and get it.
“If you walk down the street, the dogs run after you,” said neighbor Neighbor Raj Singh, 46. “They bark at everybody. They leave poop everywhere.”
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