A U.S. Postal Service employee was arrested on three charges of animal cruelty after a video showed him pepper-spraying a woman’s dog and her two puppies in Florida.

Sian Andre Spence, 47, of Fort Lauderdale, was taken into custody on Wednesday, January 28, court records viewed by Us Weekly show.

The day of his arrest, the mailman called out of work after WPLG published home surveillance footage on Monday, January 26. The video showed him pepper-spraying three dogs when he was working, the TV station reported.

Spence, according to an affidavit, pepper-sprayed the animals – named Ginger, DJ and Junior – while they were outside in their owner Bianca Green’s front yard in Lauderhill on January 2. The dogs had been behind a metal fence, police wrote in the affidavit.

DJ and Junior are Shih Tzu puppies, and Ginger is their mother, WPLG reported.

As Spence “walked alongside the other side of the fence to deliver the mail,” he was “seen pepper-spraying” the dogs “as they approached, barking on the other side of the fence,” the affidavit says.

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Green described Spence’s actions as “malicious” while speaking with WPLG.

“Before he even gets to the mailbox, before he even fully gets to our house, he sprays them, coming from my neighbors’ house,” Green told the TV station. “He sprays them with pepper spray, the two puppies run, they’re running, they’re digging their face in the dirt.”

Green had been inside her house during the incident, according to the affidavit.

From inside, she told officers that he heard banging at her door and found Ginger “rubbing her face on the ground” after opening the door.

Then her puppies ran inside, the affidavit says.

According to Green, Spence told her that the dogs “tried to bite him, so he sprayed them with dog repellent,” police wrote in the filing.

Green saw her dogs’ eyes were red and tried to wash them with water, then milk, according to the affidavit.

When she watched her home surveillance footage, she saw Spence had sprayed her dogs twice, the affidavit says.

Information on Spence’s legal representation was not immediately listed in court records on Friday, January 30.

Green told officers that her dogs “have never bitten anyone” and that she had not had previous issues with Spence, who she had known as a mailman for the past year, according to the affidavit.

Spence has worked for the USPS for five years, authorities confirmed to WPLG.

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Before Spence was arrested, USPS told WPLG that “Local management has been made aware of the situation, and it will be addressed appropriately as soon as possible.”

USPS spokesperson David P. Coleman said in a statement to Us on January 30 that Spence “remains employed by the Postal Service and is not currently on active duty.”

His employment is being reviewed, according to police, WPLG reported.

During the investigation, an officer spoke with a local veterinarian, who said that the effects of pepper-spray on dogs are temporary and similar to the effects on people, according to the affidavit.

Pepper-spray could result in serious injury if the pepper-spray caused major eye irritation or corneal damage, which could lead to “ulcerations or infection,” the veterinarian told the officer.