A woman who allegedly killed five dogs, including three puppies, April 13 was charged in the incident on April 20.
Deborah Spivey, 40, of 1500 Hutchinson Drive, was charged with five counts of cruelty to animals.
EMS personnel and a police officer were called to a house on Hutchinson Drive by Jimmy Gardner about 11 p.m. April 13 where a woman, identified as Spivey, allegedly was threatening to commit suicide. When the officer arrived, he found Spivey had a small laceration on her left wrist, but it was not bleeding.
Gardner asked Spivey about her dogs, and she allegedly stated she had killed them and hid them in a �barn.� A search of the barn did not turn up the dogs, and Spivey showed Gardner and the officer where she had put the dogs after she was asked about their whereabouts a second time.
The officer spotted a plastic bag where the woman pointed to in a shed, and Gardner pulled a bag out of a corner. Inside the bags they found five Chihuahua dogs, two adults and three puppies, and Spivey allegedly told them each of their names.
When the officer spoke with the woman, she allegedly stated she had choked the dogs and make a choking motion with her hands. She did not appear to be upset or remorseful about the dogs, police reports said, and Gardner stated he would bury the dogs in the back yard.
Spivey was taken to Colquitt Regional Medical Center for treatment, and the officer took out warrants on the woman for cruelty to animal charges April 16. She was placed under arrest after she was released from Southwestern State Hospital in Thomasville. Case UpdatesA Moultrie woman bonded out of jail after she admitted she killed her three puppies and the puppies' parents.
Moultrie police arrested 40 year old Deborah Spivey on five counts of cruelty to animals. Spivey's fiance called police to tell them she had attempted a suicide.
When officers arrived at their home, they found Spivey with a slit wrist. As paramedics prepared to take her to the hospital, her fiance asked where their five Chihuahuas were.
"{She} told us where they were, we went out and looked for them. We couldn't find them. Before she was taken to the hospital by EMS, she was actually able to take us out to the location where she had put them and we found them there," says officer Dave Underwood.
The dogs were inside plastic bags in a barn behind the home. When police asked her what happened, she admitted she choked and smothered them to death. Officers say Spivey did not appear remorseful. | Source: WALB - April 25, 2007
Update posted on Apr 27, 2007 - 4:48PM |
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