Dear Ms. Diane Summers:

This letter is in reference to the report filed by Orange County resident Rachael Anne Gregory this past weekend. Her young daughter's pet donkey, Pothos, was fatally mauled by two of drug-trafficker Naipaul Bryan Ramphal's wandering, killer pitbulls at 6 am on July 2nd. Rachael Gregory can be reached at the Doglando Foundation at (407) 574-3160 or woof@doglando.com. The copper/tan-colored pitbull, which is well-known to Baron Road residents, is named "Benjamin Buttons." These dogs wander from his and his daughter Manisha Ramphal Recinos' business at 741 Baron Road, which is publicly registered as R Squared Contracting and Engineering. Ramphal is an antisemitic, convicted aggravated felon batterer and vandal who was evicted by both the Avalon Park HOA and Perdido retail center in Pine Hills (48-2022-CF-001326-O).

Ramphal's roaming, aggressive pitbulls have killed multiple pets of other residents. They have also killed dozens of animals at two different animal sanctuaries on opposite ends of the street. Benjamin Buttons attacked the Ramphals' elderly neighbor to the left, Rose Arnemann and her little dog (2019-CO-000329-A-O). Benjamin Buttons attacked Orange County Deputy Paul Ortiz (2022-CO-000220-A-O). 

The killing of Pothos took place in a non-HOA, semi-rural area that your Orange County Animal Services can't be bothered to patrol, and often doesn't even respond to requests for service known as Seaward Plantation Estates. It's located east of Sunflower Trail in the 32828 zip code, near Alafaya and the Econlockhatchee River. In addition to Baron, some of the roads include Leona, Michel, Malta, Bearle, and Guy. Residents are discussing the loose pitbull problem on social media. This has been occurring for several years, despite the awareness of your Orange County Animal Services. Going forward, your abrupt officers should connect victims and witnesses to community resources for mental trauma, because many are burdened with it.

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This letter is being shared to social media. Your department apparently has a problem with transparency and public records requests, and we will ensure this matter doesn't disappear as others have. If this issue is not addressed soon, it will be escalated to state and federal authorities. In the past, your Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has suspended incompetent county officials. 

Ms. Summers, does a woman innocently walking her own leashed dog need to be mauled to death by repeatedly roaming pitbulls in Seaward Plantation, as the woman in Brevard County recently was, for your Orange County Animal Services to consider performing your function of public safety? Or will even that not be enough for the victim-blaming and gaslighting from your county agency to stop? Your agency has received literally hundreds of detailed, credible reports regarding the vicious, loose dogs in Seaward Plantation. You are utterly failing at your jobs. 

These repeated attacks are not accidents on the Ramphals’ part. They are drug-dealing bullies who are intimidating the neighborhood with their destructive, wandering dogs. They were evicted from the Avalon Park HOA years ago due to antisemitic stalking when they lived on Topaz. A similar eviction for ethnic harassment happened at the Perdido retail complex in Pine Hills with their former restaurant space. Naipaul Ramphal learned from experience that using a brick to bludgeon a disabled Jewish senior US military veteran in the face without provocation can lead to a felony arrest and indictment, but deliberately terrorizing his multiple Jewish neighbors with his loose, vicious dogs without provocation for several years doesn’t even lead to a citation from your lethargic department. Congratulations on providing that deadly loophole for a longtime sociopathic racist, Ms. Summers. He does not have affection for those dogs. They are used as his cudgel, and need to be seized by your office.

The majority of Seaward residents – those who aren’t drug-traffickers and sociopaths - are now disgusted by your department's non-response, gaslighting, resetting of goalposts, and other callous dishonesty. Thanks to your deliberate years of abetting vicious dogs in the name of your cohorts' fraudulent "no-kill" movement, a little girl’s beloved pet donkey, Pothos, is dead. Slaughtered in his own fenced yard. On the child’s mother's birthday, July 2. A family and the neighboring children who loved this friendly donkey are distraught. We hope you had a good county-reimbursed extended holiday weekend because Rachael Gregory's young family sure didn't. Nor did Baron Road, with exceptions such as the residents of the Naipaul Ramphal encampment, who laughed at this pet's brutal death and those before it they caused. 

Your county agency is failing at its mission to protect the public, and we will escalate this. Thanks to the apathy of your office, criminal traffickers and general sociopaths have learned that they can intimidate, harass, divide, silence, and assault neighbors through their dogs with impunity. Naipaul Ramphal and his enabling wife Sherry Saran do not have a back fence. They absolutely know that their dogs are not contained or safe.

Seniors cannot sit on their own front porches on Bearle Road. Women cannot socialize at their mailboxes with each other on Malta. Teenagers on Leona don't get a full, unmedicated night's sleep because of the overnight dog noise.  Elementary-age children on Guy Road have been mauled while waiting for their public school bus. Disabled wheelchair-users on Naomi fear that they'll be attacked in their own driveways when they go to their own cars. Amazon and UPS drivers cannot safely deliver packages on Michel. Men have stopped trying to go for a bike ride or jog on Naomi. Pets and livestock aren't safe in their own fenced yards on Baron Road.

Going forward, the victims of any traumatic dog mauling from the antisemitic Ramphal compound should be treated by your officers with the same mandated sensitivity and protection as other targets of their criminal harassment, assault, and abuse. If you need utilize Orange County Sheriff's Office deputies or county attorneys to effectively complete that task, then do so.

Spare us the self-congratulations on your department's supposedly high "live-release" rate and rising status with Best Friends Animal Society, which is tucked far away in a Utah canyon where they don't live with the consequences of their rhetoric. It's not a secret that they were disturbingly classified as a cult within your lifetime by federal authorities and still largely function as one, despite the current slick marketing. Your falsely compassionate designation relies on a closed-intake model, dressed up as "managed intake," which disregards community safety and leaves animals callously out on the streets. When residents cannot bring stray animals to your shelter, and you delay and obstruct residents who cannot keep their own animals, you are fraudulent in calling your facility "open admission." There is nothing virtuous, progressive, intelligent, or compassionate about your Orange County Animal Services model. The "no-kill" veneer is nothing more than slow-kill, with unwanted animals dumped on the rural outskirts of Orlando, ungated low-income urban neighborhoods, and dilapidated mobile home parks. Struggling Orange County residents who can’t afford to live in gated HOA neighborhoods, many of whom are persons of color or disabled, are paying for your cheery veneer with Best Friends. 

Perhaps your unkind officers avoid responding to Seaward Plantation and similar ungated neighborhoods because that might involve actually intaking vicious animals in the name of actual public safety? Your department is hypocritical to sneer at Polk County's animal services program with the claim that their Sheriff Grady Judd should try to model your non-policies. Your department's years of callous disregard for the semi-rural area east of Sunflower in the 32828 zip is shameful. The Polk County commissioners who’ve been harassed by Best Friends activists for the past year for not modeling Orange County’s practices might be interested in learning about utter failure of your organization from those of living with the consequences. Your office is a warning to the rest of Florida of “what not to do.” 

Please explain your logic or regard for life to us, Ms. Summers. Why do you allow Orange County criminals to assault and abuse their neighbors, as long as dogs are the weapons of choice? Orange County residents would be arrested if they fired bullets from their homes that could hit people or animals walking by. Yet when the same known Seawrd Plantation households repeatedly launch their unleashed, recurrently aggressive pitbulls into a neighborhood that injure and kill multiple people or animals, your department does little or nothing. If Orange County residents contiunously operated loud machinery that disturbed their neighbors, they would face fines or even arrest.  Yet when the same households' puppy-mills disrupt their neighbors' sleep for years, your department does little or nothing.

 

Ms. Summers, your taxpaid income is quadruple that of many Seaward Plantation homeowners. It's time for you and your Orange County Animal Services officers to actually perform your public safety jobs. We plan to distribute this letter until this issue is meaningfully addressed as you would for your own white, upper-class neighborhood. An Orange County hang-tag lazily left the gate of a vicious, recurrently roaming dog's owner's driveway by one of your apathetic officers is not resolution. Perhaps Polk County Sheriff Judd's team could create humor for his popular social media stream from your agency's hypocritical incompetence, because we could certainly use the laughter.

The people and vulnerable animals of Seaward Plantation are not safe and thriving. These problems are rooted in the same few pitbull-saturated, drug-trafficking households that your officers have known about for years. Which is how criminals such as Naipaul Bryan Ramphal and his wife Sherry Saran like it. It is no surprise that the largest known drug opration in Orange County history was discovered by state authorities at the George Pherai-Bogeajis property on Bearle Road two years ago. Others, such as Naipaul Ramphal's, remain. When neighbors cannot safely go for walks and meet each other, criminal operations thrive.

Residents have attempted to do everything "right" and reported their incidents with violent dogs. Repeatedly. They endure the gaslighting and victim-blaming from your curt employees - if an officer ever responds to that 311 call in the first place. If the victim or witness of a dog attack actually receives a visit from your department, the bigger runaround begins. Residents accept the time-consuming, unpaid "assignments" from your insensitive officers to prove these violations are happening, as if dozens of households would consistently lie about this misery. The complainants shoot videos as your cavalier officers instruct. They take photos. They dutifully attain, pay for, and submit the doctors' and veterinarians’ reports if there's been a bite incident. Those residents attempt to follow up again and again, believing that if they jump through enough of your “hoops,” you’ll actually do your jobs. Alas, your aloof  dispatchers and officers usually gaslight those victims some more and move the goalposts. Some of the dog-mauling victims and witnesses have said that they were already struggling with trauma from the actual mauling incidents, and their experiences with your department further compounded their distress. The officers waste the residents' time and usually still do nothing about the vicious and nuisance dogs. Reporting creates animosity between the victim of a dog bite and the vicious pitbull-owning criminal neighbor, but almost always leads to zero support or resolution from your department.  The owner of the malicious dog, who may also be a violent criminal, has the victim's personal details from their copy of the incident report, but the victim often knows few about them. Considering the violent criminality of the Seaward's notorious roaming pitbull-owning households, your department should treat mauling victims' information with the same caution afforded to those of criminal assault victims and witnesses. Failing that, the victims should receive the identical details about the dog's owner.

Your department needs to stop treating dogbite incidents and recurrent dog-noise pollution as mutual conflicts or neighborly disputes. There is a clear victim and perpetrator in each of these scenarios. Residents did not ask to be mauled by someone else's wandering dog or have their sleep interrupted for years by a nuisance dog on the next street. Not once have any of the victims or witnesses of these traumatic mauling incidents been referred to mental health resources by your aloof employees. Your department needs to stop the victim-blaming and start protecting the public.

After a dozen unsuccessful reports to Orange County Animal Services, most residents give up. Is that the intention on your end, perhaps?  Do you uncompassionately consider it success or resolution when traumatized Orange County dog-bite victims and witnesses lock themselves inside their homes because they no longer bother to ask your office to perform its role of public safety?  Going forward, please spare us the "I didn't know." You now definitely know, as do your officers. 

Many east Orange County residents have not only given up on Orange County municipal services, they've given up on basic life expectations of living in a house in a supposedly civilized society. They stop waiting outside for the school bus, sitting on their own front porches, going for walks, meeting their neighbors outside, and thinking it's possible to get a full night's rest without a chemical agent. Your department's non-response has sucked the soul out of Seaward Plantation Estates. We hope that sparkly "live-release" certificate from Best Friends Animal Society looks good above your comfortable bureaucratic desk, but that pet donkey's death and the other murdered pets of Seaward Plantation should go on your kill-tally. You have their blood on your hands, along with the tanked mental health of Seaward Plantation residents who've become de facto prisoners in their own homes and can't even have a decent night's rest there because of the nuisance kennels. 

You've gotten reports, from multiple residents and for years, about the illegal puppy-mills and kennels in Seaward. Faraway residents have recorded the sleep-interrupting noise from inside their homes with their doors and windows closed. They've retained these recordings. Your officers have been advised that vicious dogs are escaping, entering neighbors' homes, and attacking their small animals. You've received the reports that the noise can be heard at all hours from two streets away. That the smell wafts. They continue to illegally build and the nuisance gets worse. Building, barking, breeding. Year after year, without permits. They are fully aware that their dogs are not contained. Your department has received videos and photos regarding this matter. You do not need additional calls and reports on this matter.

It’s beyond time for you to act on this Seaward Plantation issue. Stop giving unpaid, exhausted residents additional "assignments." Do not tell us that we "need" to call another Orange County department, fill out a different form, call more phone numbers, or submit another document for next decade while you sit on this and more bloody attacks occur. We've already proven ourselves to your agency - something we should not have to do in the first place. Perhaps Seaward residents should smugly demand that you and your officers repeatedly go to our workplaces and perform our jobs without any compensation, authority, and training? If we have to communicate further about this lethal matter after this letter, it will be above you, not with you.

Ms. Summers, this is not the time for you and your officers to arrogantly respond that any of these matters are a “code enforcement issue,” "a matter for law enforcement," or some other buck-passing phrase. You can spend your highly-paid hours coordinating with those other well-reimbursed Orange County or state departments if that’s relevant. The constant barking, animal escapes, and dog-bites are definite issues for your Orange County Animal Services, and you are failing to address those reports. Those bucks stop with you. If your officers need accompaniment from Orange County Sheriff's Office or other paid authorities, you already know how to make that happen. If the pitbull-owners respond with their attorneys, then your county attorneys can respond to them. Please perform your paid jobs.

Your department does not comply with public records laws when residents attempt to attain compiled records of incidents on their street, or even just bite incidents involving themselves directly. They're stalled for months until most of them give up. Your employees dodge them by email and voicemail and tell them the records are in the mail when they aren't. Eventually, residents have to take the day off work and physically come to your office just to attain records. Was this apparent stonewalling intentional on your agency's part? The residents who did persist noticed that not all of their known incidents are returned in the records. This suggests there may have been additional incidents unknown to them that were also withheld. Why the lack of transparency? Is someone hiding your possible ineptitude, Ms. Summers?

Perhaps you're sitting at your comfortable municipal desk and asking the flippant, "Why don't you just move away?" Many people have indeed fled their homes because of this danger. Then another future bite victim moves in, and they try  to go to their mailboxes, sit in their fenced yard, take a walk, or work on their cars in their driveways. It's time for your department to start doing your jobs instead of pushing it off to the next set of new, naive residents who move in and have their time wasted by making reports that also go nowhere. Dishonestly flipping the problem off to another set of unsuspecting homebuyers does not solve this lethality. Perhaps we should ask why your department doesn’t “just” close and move elsewhere since it’s not performing its public safety role.

We have a challenge for you, Ms. Summers.  We suggest experiencing this area in question as a vulnerable resident. Try literally walking a mile in the shoes of the taxpayers you're enviably compensated to represent.  No Orange County uniform or car to confer your official privilege. Perhaps start on north Malta, walk east on Bearle, double-back on Baron, then head east on Bearle again to Guy Road. Unarmed, unannounced, and unescorted by your officers, as the others here have tried to do. Perhaps bring a leashed dog weighing less than 15 pounds. You can experience the fear felt by female, minor, and senior residents who have been chased, cornered, and mauled. 

Enough is enough. It's time to act on the vicious, unleashed, and nuisance dogs east of Sunflower in the rural and semi-rural 32828 zip code.

Going forward, you can't flippantly say you “didn’t know” about the illegal kennels and inhumane puppy-mills in Seaward. Including a few who fraudulently hide behind the “sanctuary” label to get a pass. They are not legitimate charities or nonprofit rescues by any standard.  Your Orange County Animal Services may look the other way and offer them "shelter pull" contracts anyway to aid in that deceptive live-release rate. You're on the verge of a Miranda's Rescue story that California is experiencing.

Good people and their companion animals in Seaward have been virtually confined inside their homes for several years because of your department's non-response to the aggressive dog problem. This is taking a toll on people’s mental, physical, and social health. In sunny, warm Florida, taxpayers cannot safely go for a bike ride in Seaward Plantation. Residents cannot go for walks on the tax-paid streets in front of their homes because of the unleashed, vicious dog problem that has been unsuccessfully reported to your department for years. And inside their homes, their walls rattle with barking at all hours from multiple illegal kennels that have also been reported to your unit.

Seniors, some of whom are on fixed incomes, have enclosed their yards with gates and high fences solely because of the roaming pitbull issues that your paid employees won’t address in Seaward Plantation Estates. They’ve shouldered this expense because of your department’s apathy. These elder residents can be seen nervously walking their own small dogs on harnesses in circles within their yards several times, so they can quickly retreat inside when wandering pitbulls scale their fences again to attempt to maul both of them. Neighbors in Seaward are increasingly detached, largely because of this issue.

Ms. Summers, stop being complicit. Perform your public safety job in Seaward Plantation Estates.