ALBUQUERQUE POLICE SAY A MAN HAS BEEN BREAKING INTO A LOCAL ANIMAL SHELTER — AND SAY HE DID SOMETHING VERY DISTURBING. INVESTIGATORS SAY THE MAN SEXUALLY ASSAULTED AT LEAST ONE DOG. NOW THEY’RE CHECKING UP ON KNOWN SEX OFFENDERS TO SEE IF ANY OF THEM HAVE A HISTORY OF SEXUALLY ABUSING ANIMALS. CRIS ORNELAS IS LIVE AT THE HUMANE ASSOCIATION NEAR CENTRAL AND WYOMING WITH TONIGHT'S TOP STORY. DETECTIVES SAY ITS AT LEAST ONCE IN IN THE LAST COUPLE OF MONTHS... SOMEONE BROKE IN OVERNIGHT AND SODOMIZED A DOG. WE WANT TO WARN VIEWERS SOME OF THE DETAILS OF THIS STORY ARE DISTURBING. POLICE SAY SOMEONE BROKE INTO THE DOG KENNELS AT THE HUMANE ASSOCIATION SHELTER NEAR WYOMING AND ZUNI FOUR TIMES IN THE LAST TWO MONTHS . THEY SAY AT LEAST ONE OF THOSE TIMES THE BURGLAR SEXUALLY ASSAULTED A DOG. 'during the middle of july there was some evidence that one of the animlas there had been sodomized'POLICE SAY VETS AT THE SHELTER CONFIRMED THE ABUSE DURING EXAMS. BUT OFFICIALS WITH THE HUMANE ASSOCIATION WONT TALK ABOUT THE BREAK-INS AND THE ABUSE ON CAMERA... THEY SAY THEY ARE WORRIED IT WILL KEEP PEOPLE FROM COMING HERE TO ADOPT PETS. WE SPOKE TO DOG LOVERS OUTSIDE THE SHELTER. ' I don't have any words for it maybe it exists but I don't know it''its pretty sick I think I cant even fathom somebody doing that'THE CASE HAS BEEN TURNED OVER TO THE SHERIFF DEPARTMENT'S SEX OFFENDER UNIT. DETECTIVES THINK THERE'S A GOOD CHANCE THAT ANYONE WHO WOULD DO THIS IS A SEX OFFENDER... MAYBE EVEN ONE WHO'S REGISTERED. 'it's a pretty specific liking and of course there are some people who do have that in their backgrounds and of course we'll be checking up on that' NOW DETECTIVES ARE HOPING THE SUSPECT MAY HAVE LEFT EVIDENCE THAT WILL LEAD TO HIS ARREST. 'the animal did go through a SANE exam which is similar to what a victim would go through in a rape case that evidence has been processed yet so I don't know if there is any dna evidence there' DE...