Kristie Holbert, 42, was booked into the Lafayette Parish Correctional Center with two counts aggravated cruelty to animals and eight counts cruelty to animals. As of Friday, she had posted $10,000 bond and been released, records show.
Holbert was arrested after a patrol deputy was called to a home on Amireau Drive in Youngsville by a complaint about pigs alone in the house.
When he arrived, the arrest warrant states, he found broken windows on the home and a total of eight malnourished pigs in the home. Pens had been made with plywood in the rooms of the house, the warrant states. There was no food or water for the pigs, and the deputy found two dead pigs in the home as well, the affidavit states.
The home was covered in a mixture of urine, feces and trash, the affidavit states. The pigs were pot-bellied pigs, the type often sold as pets, a spokesman for the Sheriff's Office said.
The deputy removed the eight live pigs and took them to a nearby barn. Animal Control agents examined the pigs and found overgrown hooves and infections, the warrant states.
The deputy found identification belonging to Holbert in the home, and after an investigation determined she lived in the house but hadn't been seen there for some time.
Deputies spoke with Holbert while they were at the scene, but weren't able to locate her again and obtained the warrant for her arrest, the affidavit states.
(KATC Lafayette News - Feb 5, 2016)
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