Shane Oliver of Bergen and Robert Yates of West Seneca, both 20 were issued appearance tickets and will be back in Sweden Town Court at noon on April 2. "Through a joint investigation between the SUNY Brockport Police, the Brockport Police Department and the Sweden Dog Warden, it was learned that a dog was held upside down, and apparently forced to consume beer from a keg during a party that occurred on Saturday March 8, 2014 at a house located on Monroe Avenue in the village of Brockport," according to the news release. Speculation that the people responsible for the photo were Brockport students began immediately because the person in the photo was wearing a college t-shirt and the photo was posted on a Twitter account called the SUNY Party Stories page. Mya's owner was not home when the photo was taken, police said. The dog has been taken into protective custody and is said to be in good condition. A spokesman for the college said school officials "were alarmed to see the photos and will investigate it and take appropriate action."
– A Twitter photo of a dog held upside-down over a beer keg has a pair of college students in Western New York facing animal cruelty charges. The young Labrador retriever, Mya, was apparently being forced to drink, officials say (though another Twitter user says the dog didn't actually have any beer). Shane Oliver and Robert Yates, both 20-year-olds at SUNY Brockport, have been charged with torturing and injuring an animal. Oliver held the dog while Yates took and posted the picture, police say, per the Democrat and Chronicle. The picture, which featured a person wearing a college T-shirt, was posted on a Twitter account called SUNYPartyStories before making the rounds online. It was captioned "Keg stands n Bits," Syracuse.com reports. Mya, whose owner wasn't home during the incident, is in good condition with the local dog warden.