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Case #7325 Rating: 3.1 out of 5
Dogs sold on internet - sick, inbred, bogus papers
Asheville, NC (US)Incident Date: Saturday, Jan 31, 2004
County: Buncombe
Disposition: Convicted
Defendants/Suspects:
» Violet Gail Howard
» Elsey Rose Justice
Violet Gail Howard and Esley Rose Justice of 188 White Oak Gap Road in Asheville, NC each pled guilty to one count of Larceny by Trick and one count of Cruelty to Animals as part of a plea arrangement.
The defendants had been under investigation since February 2004 by the Department of Animal Control and the Buncombe County Sheriff's Department after it was reported that they had sold sick, inbred dogs with fraudulent registration papers to persons throughout the United States and Canada after advertising the dogs over the Internet as being healthy, registered purebreds.
As a condition of the plea arrangement the defendants are not permitted to own or possess any animals for a period of five years while on probation. Further, the defendants were required to pay $27,000 in restitution and court costs, as well as relinquish custody of the thirteen dogs seized from their property by the Department of Animal Control on September 1, 2004.
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