An Augusta man was charged with aggravated cruelty to animals after passersby reported seeing a dead dog, and another dog panting heavily, in his pickup truck parked outside a restaurant and bar where the man spent his afternoon, according to court records. She said she went outside the bar and restaurant at around 5:20 p.m. and saw a truck parked on Commercial Street. White opened the truck and one dog came out, and White “was still in denial” the other dog was deceased, Rogers wrote in the affidavit. The dog quickly drank the water and, later at the humane society, police said the dog also quickly drank another bowl of water. He later went outside, after the other witness reported seeing a dead dog in the truck, looked inside and saw what appeared to be a deceased dog inside, according to the affidavit.