Allegheny County Chief Deputy outlines Ray-Ray Armstrong Steelers-Raiders timeline

Pittsburgh police are investigating an incident in which an Oakland Raiders player allegedly taunted a police dog as the Raiders-Steelers game was beginning.

“The dog was going insane”, chief deputy Kevin Kraus told the BBC. The deputy didn’t release the dog.

The Sheriff’s Office and the Oakland Raiders did not respond to a request for comment.

Kraus met with the District Attorney’s Office on Tuesday to discuss moving forward with pressing charges against Armstrong.

Taunting a police dog is a felony three in Pennsylvania and carries a maximum punishment of $15,000 and seven years in jail.

Armstrong, a third-year reserve who played at the University of Miami and Faulkner University, was signed by the St Louis Rams as an undrafted free agent in 2013 before joining Oakland ahead of last season.

“I could see him jumping around, screaming, barking…Several other players that were with him, they also started to bark, clap, make agitation noises towards my dog”.

The sheriff’s office did not speak with Armstrong before the team left Pittsburgh, but it has informed the Steelers, the National Football League and the Raiders an investigation is being carried out that includes interviews and review of surveillance cameras. “I imagine with his training and experience he would have gone to his target who was taunting him”.

The handler involved in the incident has been identified as police deputy Maria Watts and her dog Bandit. “I’ve caught wind of this story”, he said on Sirius XM NFL Radio.

“No-one in the department, from the sheriff down, is happy about this”. “We believed that there was sufficient probable cause to make an arrest”.