Former Fire Chief sentenced for livestock cruelty, torture
Posted/updated on: October 18, 2025 at 5:12 am
UPSHUR COUNTY — According to our news partner KETK, former Glenwood Volunteer Fire Department Chief, Katiland Ariel Gray was sentenced to four years in prison after being convicted of cruelty to livestock animals /torture. According to Harrison County judicial records, Gray committed two offenses regarding cruelty to livestock animals on Aug. 11, 2024 and was indicted on Nov. 20 the same year.
Judicial records confirm that Gray pleaded not guilty to one count of cruelty to livestock animals and one count of cruelty to livestock animals/torture on Sept. 10, 2025. She was convicted and sentenced on account of both charges on the same day.
Gray will spend four years consecutively in the Texas Department of Criminal Justice and is ordered to pay a total of $10,390.
