A Tiverton man faces two municipal court summonses for having dogs at large, after police said his two pitbull mixes attacked and injured a neighbor's dog late last month.

John D. Hartwein Sanchez, of 210N Christopher Ave, was charged after a neighbor called police Monday, June 19, to report that his dogs got under a fence and into her backyard, where they attacked her dog. She told police that she believe her dog might have had its back legs dislocated.

Police wrote that when they arrived, the injured dog was lying on a couch and looked like it had been attacked.

The woman "explained that she was inside her residence when she heard her dog screech and ran outside to find (it) in the mouth of one of the neighbor's dogs," police wrote. She told police that the attacking dog "was whipping its head back and forth and that the owner was on the other side of the fence, yelling at his dog to 'put it down.'"

While the woman took her dog to a veterinarian, police spoke to Sanchez, who confirmed that his pitbull mixes, Nyx and Narla, had gotten under the fence and attacked the neighbor's dog. Police surveyed the property and found several large gaps in the chainlink fence separating the properties, and Sanchez "admitted being aware of the gaps in the fence."

Police told him that his dogs would need to go into quarantine from other animals, and that the town's animal control officer would follow up. He was issued a summons for two counts of Dogs at Large.

Police also followed up with the neighbor, who reported that though her dog had no puncture wounds or broken bones, it was unable to walk due to bruising.