Animal Cruelty Arrest
Posted/updated on: February 9, 2011 at 11:22 am
WOOD COUNTY — A Yantis woman has been arrested on animal cruelty charges after Wood County Sheriffs deputies confiscated 30 malnourished horses and several horse carcasses from her property. According to authorities, Linda Hurley Jones, 67, was taken into custody after a court hearing this past Wednesday. She was charged with nine counts of animal cruelty. Deputies, along with volunteers of the True Blue Animal Rescue organization rescued the horses two weeks ago.
Deputies responded after several neighbors reported Jones for failing to feed and water her horses as well as providing adequate shelter for them. Volunteers found more than eight dead horse carcasses and 21 malnourished mares, many of them pregnant, and nine weanlings on Jones property at the time of the seizure. Jones was released from the Wood County jail after posting a $13,500 bond. She faces up to a year in jail on each of the misdemeanor charges.
