Australian prosecutors drop case against Amber Heard over pet Yorkshire terriers

Australian prosecutors have dropped a potential criminal case against American actress Amber Heard over allegations that she lied to a court about how her Yorkshire terriers came to be smuggled into Australia eight years ago (Glenn Hunt/AAP Image/AP)

Australian prosecutors have dropped a potential criminal case against American actress Amber Heard over allegations that she lied to a court about how her Yorkshire terriers, Pistol and Boo, came to be smuggled into Australia eight years ago, the government said on Wednesday.

Heard and her then-husband, Johnny Depp, became embroiled in a high-profile biosecurity controversy in 2015 when she took her pets to Australia’s Gold Coast, where Depp was filming the fifth movie in the Pirates Of The Caribbean series.