Gardena Police Officer Nick Beerling responded to calls of a whimpering animal coming from a self-compacting trash bin ...

Days before Christmas, a police officer walking in Gardena, Calif., heard "faint whimpers and cries" that seemed to be coming from a compactor trash can on Normandy Avenue, according to an ...

A one-year-old terrier mix tossed into a self-compacting trash can was rescued just in time by a police officer — who days ...

When Gardena Police Sgt. Nick Beering responded to reports of whimpers coming from a self-compacting trash can outside a ...

A dog was abandoned and left to die in a trash compactor. It happened outside a Los Angeles church. Police say the puppy had been dropped into a trash compactor that automatically crushed its contents ...