The Dare County Sheriff’s Office began the investigation on December 30th after several dead cats were discovered in a dumpster in the Avon area.
“We would never have suspected in a million years that something like this would happen,” said Debbie Martin, with Friends of Felines – Cape Hatteras Island.
For the past 15 years, Martin has cared for more than a dozen spayed and neutered feral cats on the realty property facility where she is a manager, she said. She feeds them at night and a co-worker takes over in the morning. He could not find them Wednesday, until he checked the dumpster, Martin said.
“He had some very bad news for me, that he had found three bodies in the dumpster back behind me, and all the cats are gone. We don’t know what has happened to them.”
The Sheriff’s Office Investigation Division opened a case and developed 26-year-old Jordan Wallace Boykin, 609 Vista Lake Drive, as a suspect. The case was taken before the Dare County Grand Jury on February 29, and Boykin was indicted on four counts of animal cruelty.
He was arrested Saturday, charged with the four counts of animal cruelty and one count of failure to appear on a weapons violation. He was released on a $30,000 secured bond.
(WTKR - March 7, 2016)
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