History

Convicted: Pet Store Owner Charged
Jan 2004 - Springfield, MO (US)
Sentence: Machelle Martin received a year in jail Monday (April 11, 2005) after pleading guilty to 10 counts of animal abuse. Martin, 28, also admitted in a plea agreement to passing a bad check and interference with the legal process.

Her jail sentence will run concurrent to a 17-year prison term she received last year for kidnapping, endangering the welfare of a child and interfering with child custody.