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DEPUTIES CONFISCATE MORE ANIMALS - SIX FOUND DEAD

By NCBI
Feb 01, 2013

Okanogan County Deputies, assisting the Washington Department of Fish Wildlife with a search warrant in a poaching case Wednesday found multiple dead and neglected animals.

Okanogan County Sheriff Frank Rogers said the deputies executed the warrant at 247 Greenacres Road. Rogers said the owner of the residence and the animals is 50-year-old Lisa M. Smith, of Omak.

Rogers said they discovered several animals that were in very poor condition and looked to be very malnourished. He said they also discovered five dead cows and a dead goat in a small barn located on the property. The Sheriff said, "Some of the dead animals had been there a while, while others appeared to be recent deaths." He said they also found no food or water in the pen where the animals were being kept.

Rogers said they brought a veterinarian to the property who said that the animals were in poor health and severely underweight. Through the use of a search warrant the remaining live animals, five cows and a horse, were removed from the property and transported to Keystone Animal Shelter.

Rogers said Smith was not home at the time of the warrant but later made contact with Deputies by telephone. He said, "Smith was very uncooperative and hung up on the Deputies refusing to talk to them."

Deputies are requesting charges from the Prosecutors Office on Smith for seven counts of Animal Cruelty in First Degree and five counts of Animal Cruelty in the Second Degree.


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