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The handler for a Maine comfort dog that died in a hot car earlier this year has been charged with a civil violation of animal cruelty.

Brodie Hinckley was charged in the comfort dog’s death , the Penobscot County district attorney’s office said Friday. Baxter, a 3-year-old chocolate Labrador retriever, died May 28 after he was left in a hot car parked at the Bangor Regional Communications Center.

Baxter was supposed to provide comfort to Maine’s emergency dispatchers.

The charges against Hinckley come nearly three months after the state launched an i

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