EL PASO, Texas -- Fort Bliss officials said they are "well aware of the situation" following a KFOX report about a second Fort Bliss solider accused of animal cruelty.

As KFOX reported Thursday, Spc. Frank Zimmerman is charged with failing to obey the post's animal cruelty policy. Last week, officials at Pet Guardian Angel, a local animal adoption group, told KFOX that Zimmerman returned a dog he'd recently adopted. The dog, Wrigley, was returned with a broken leg. PGA officials said a second dog had been killed after Zimmerman allegedly stomped on its neck.

Fort Bliss said it is investigating the allegations and Zimmerman is living in the post's barracks awaiting the outcome.

The Zimmerman investigation comes 11 months after another Fort Bliss soldier was accused of animal cruelty. In February 2008, a local animal rescue group alerted the media to a case involving a dog they dubbed "Little Pit Girl." Jessie Miller with Animal Cruelty Heartline said the dog was left inside a dog crate by Fort Bliss soldier, Dwayne Sumter, in an abandoned off-post house. The dog eventually chewed her way out of the crate but was left without food or water. Her body was found lying in a suitcase that was left behind in the home.

Sumter was charged with animal cruelty by the El Paso District Attorney's Office but has never been prosecuted. Sumter was transferred from Fort Bliss to Fort Hood as a regularly scheduled transfer.

In the news release, Fort Bliss officials wrote, "The unit commander at his new duty station has been notified." The release does not indicate when that notification took place.