Former Mayor Richard Nedohon, his son and a Delaware woman were charged last month in an animal abuse case.
The case has been shifted to Upper Deerfield Municipal Court. A hearing date has not been set.
According to the SPCA, Dana Wisnoski and Mark Nedohon, the son, were charged with 28 complaints for allegedly failing to provide proper food to 14 horses.
Richard Nedohon was charged with allowing and procuring the acts of Wisnoski and his son regarding four other horses that were kept on his property.
At first, authorities were not focusing on the Nedohons.
An investigation by the New Jersey Society to Prevent the Cruelty to Aniamals started in March after it received an anonymous tip alleging Mark and and Dana Wisnoski had moved out of their Pilesgrove home and left their dog, an Australian Shepherd, to die in a kennel.
Both face charges of abandoning the dog, which was found dead, according to the SPCA. The case expanded from there.
A second anonymous tip led authorities to the horses, the SPCA said.
Who owns the 19 horses remains unclear, said Jane Donoughe, an officer with the SPCA who worked on the investigation.
Authorities later determined that Dana Wisnoski and Mark Nederhon kept 14 of the horses on a farm in Upper Deerfield.
A local farmer that was renting space on his land to them does not face charges in the matter.
Richard Nederhon, the former mayor, kept the other five horses on his property in Pilesgrove, Donoughe alleged.
A state veternarian determined that four of them were in bad shape, the SPCA said.
The SPCA filed charges against all four.
Scott Wisnoski is charged only in the dog case.
Donoghue said none the 19 horses had to be euthanized. Five of them remain with the former mayor and the others are at the farmer's property.
The SPCA said it wants to have the horses taken away. References« Back to Search Results
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