Katrina Brooks, 49, was arrested Dec. 5 and charged with aggravated cruelty to animals, according to court records.
A man who owns the rental home on the 100 block of East 27th Street, where Brooks had been living, called police on Nov. 24 after he discovered seven emaciated dogs and one dead dog inside the home, wrote Anniston police Capt. Allen George in an email to The Star on Thursday.
Police found a pit bull dead inside a locked room. George wrote that the dog had apparently partially eaten a plastic bucket [because it was so hungry].
Brooks had moved away from that home about a month before the dogs were discovered, George wrote. Brooks told investigators that she fed the dogs once during that time, and thought that an acquaintance was also taking care of them.
Angie Persch, Cheaha Regional Humane Society director, said all seven dogs rescued from the home are being cared for at the shelter and are doing well.
“They are under protective custody,” Persch said, meaning no one can take them away from the shelter without police approval.
Persch said the dogs, which are of varying breed, came in badly malnourished, but are recovering well.
Attempts to reach Brooks weren’t immediately successful Friday.
Brooks was released on a $7,500 bond on Dec. 8, and is scheduled to appear in court Jan. 1.
(Anniston Star - December 12, 2014)
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