DORTON, Ky. — A complaint about a woman causing a disturbance at a home at Dorton allowed police the opportunity to serve her with multiple warrants, including one from October alleging an act of extreme animal cruelty.

State police were called to the home on the Right Fork of Three Mile Road early Friday morning. On the way, they learned about the warrants against the woman, identified as Courtney Smallwood, 41, and that she was the subject of an active emergency protective order filed against her by her mother. She was found inside a bedroom in her mother’s home.

The animal cruelty complaint alleges Smallwood beat a puppy with a large stick. The beating caused the puppy’s eye to come out of its socket, broke a leg, and knocked out several teeth, in addition to other injuries. The dog had to be euthanized as a result.

Smallwood is also the subject of a fugitive warrant out of Virginia.

She was arrested and is currently being held in the Pike County Detention Center.