The Santa Ana Police Department announced the arrest of Alejandro Oliveros Acosta, 45, on Wednesday after investigating multiple reports of neighborhood cat abuse and deaths over several weeks.

The exact number of cats harmed or killed was not immediately available, but Santa Ana Police Department spokeswoman Yessenia Aspeipia said over a dozen carcasses were found at his home. The suspect is believed to have manually harmed and killed the animals, Aspeipia said.

A California man was arrested Wednesday amid allegations that he lured and killed more than a dozen cats at his Santa Ana, Calif., home over the last several weeks.