{"id":199308,"date":"2012-07-04T10:58:11","date_gmt":"2012-07-04T15:58:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=199308"},"modified":"2012-07-05T10:27:15","modified_gmt":"2012-07-05T15:27:15","slug":"man-accused-of-in-animal-hanging-incident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=199308","title":{"rendered":"Man Accused in Animal Hanging Incident"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?attachment_id=199462\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-199462\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2012\/07\/Anthony-George-Bassler2-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Anthony George Bassler2\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-199462\" \/><\/a>GILMER \u2014 An Upshur County man is arrested for animal cruelty. According to KETK, deputies were called to Anthony Bassler\u2019s home north of Ore City to investigate. When deputies arrived, they found a starved donkey and a goat hanging from a tree on the property. Bassler told them he was using the donkey as bait and it was already dead when he put it in the tree. According to law enforcement, \u201cHe did offer an explanation to what had taken place, but the evidence we saw at the scene did not support his story\u2026and other witness statements did not corroborate his statements either.\u201d Bassler was arrested in January 2009 on animal cruelty charges. A donkey and goat taken from his property were turned over to the SPCA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GILMER \u2014 An Upshur County man is arrested for animal cruelty. According to KETK, deputies were called to Anthony Bassler\u2019s home north of Ore City to investigate. When deputies arrived, they found a starved donkey and a goat hanging from a tree on the property. Bassler told them he was using the donkey as bait &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=199308\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Man Accused in Animal Hanging Incident<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-199308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-02 19:59:39","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=199308"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199308\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":199507,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199308\/revisions\/199507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=199308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=199308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=199308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}