Published Thursday, June 11, 2015 | 10:54 a.m.
Updated Thursday, June 11, 2015 | 12:06 p.m.
A 25-year-old Nevada man accused of beheading and dismembering several dogs has pleaded no contest to seven felony counts of willfully torturing and killing the animals.
The Reno Gazette-Journal reports Jason Brown changed his earlier not guilty plea during an appearance Thursday before Washoe District Court Judge Elliott Sattler.
Brown had been scheduled to go to trial on June 22. He's been held in the Washoe County jail on $70,000 bail since he was arrested last summer in the case that sparked public outrage.
Detectives say they were called to a south Reno motel in July where they found a decapitated dog and four dog heads in a small refrigerator.
Prosecutors said earlier if Brown was convicted he'd faced a minimum of three years in prison and potentially more than 20.
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