Christopher Cella was arrested at the Greene County Sheriff’s Office at 80 Bridge St. Tuesday on a warrant for 34 counts of failure to provide sustenance and two counts of failure to provide appropriate shelter for dogs, a misdemeanor under the New York State Agriculture and Markets Law.
The arrest stems from an incident late last month in which investigators found the dogs being kept in small cages and with no food or water and with limited heat at two houses in the town of Durham, the sheriff’s office said.
In that incident, Dawn Verdeschi, 43, who rents a residence at 596 Morrison Road and is the co-owner of a residence at 221 Hervey-Sunside Road, was also charged with failure to provide sustenance. She was arraigned in Durham Town Court and sent to Greene County Jail in lieu of $1,500 bail.
Cella was sent to the Greene County Jail in lieu of $5,000 cash bail or $10,000 bond following his arraignment.
(Oneida Dispatch - Mar 8, 2014)
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Deborah Albanese walked into a shocking scene when she checked on her rental property over the weekend. She said she was disgusted to discover dozens of dogs underneath garbage.
“You didn’t even know where a dog was until it started to bark,” she said. “My eyes started to water. That’s how bad the smell is.”
The Greene County Sheriff’s Office executed a search warrant Sunday at the house at 596 Morrison Rd. and began a rescue and investigation into the actions of Verdeschi.
“I can’t close my eyes to that,” Albanese continued. “I had to call the police. I called 911.”
“Really, in my 30-year career in law enforcement, this is the worst animal abuse case I’ve seen,” Greene County Sheriff Greg Seeley said. “There was cages on top of cages with dogs in each of the cages. There was feces on top of the dogs that was running down.”
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