TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) — Investigators say a man who tried to abandon six puppies by zipping them inside a suitcase and leaving it outside an Ohio business was charged after authorities found he'd left the luggage tag with his contact information attached.

A Toledo Area Humane Society officer filed two counts of abandonment against the Toledo man on Tuesday. He's accused of leaving the canvas bag of puppies and their mother next to a trash bin behind a city business. Authorities say he was moving and had tried unsuccessfully to sell the puppies.

that the bag of six English bulldog puppies was picked up April 4 by the Lucas County dog warden's office.

Passers-by had found the bag and released the animals.