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Incident Date: Friday, May 14, 1999
County: Dane
Disposition: Convicted
Case Images: 4 files available
Defendant/Suspect: Chad Alvarez
Alvarez, age 23 of 402 W. Dayton St. a University of Wisconsin senior had been charged with animal cruelty and theft for cooking Cory Greenfield's parrot in a microwave oven.
The 1 year old Quaker parrot, named Lago, exploded before the Sigma Chi fraternity brothers could free the bird.
Alvarez is the son of the university football coach Barry Alvarez. Alvarez has been convicted before on charges of first-offense drunken driving.
Alvarez broke into Greenfield's room, removed the parrot from his cage, threw the parrot against a wall, tortured and killed the parrot because he was angry over an e-mail that was sent around the fraternity house at 221 Langdon St.
Lago has a vocabulary of about 20 words
On December 10th 1999 a plea agreement was made. Alvarez pleaded no contest to felony charges of intentional mistreatment of an animal resulting in the death and felony theft of a domestic animal. As a result Alvarez will spend 10 days in jail during the holidays as punishment.
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