"He's having trouble sleeping. He's been crawling up into bed with me, saying he's having bad dreams," Natascha Hill said about her son Bradly.
On October 4, 2016, the eleven year old boy was allegedly attacked by a pit bull named "Cheese Puff" at the home on 3003 Allison Ave. in Panama City Beach.
Hill and her son were visiting her boss who had recently bought the home from the dog's owner Katrina Bracher. The boss made an agreement with Bracher to temporarily keep Cheese Puff and some of her belongings until the money cleared for the property, according to a Bay County Animal Control report.
"My son was going to open up the front door, and I saw the dog come around the side of the house, and I kind of said, 'hey puppy,' and it wasn't growing or acting aggressive at all, and the next thing I knew the dog had Bradly by the back of his legs and was dragging him into the yard, chewing and scratching on him," Hill explained. "It was a pretty helpless feeling, pretty, pretty terrifying for both of us."
Officials have documented four times that Bracher's pit bulls have caused problems in the Allison Ave. neighborhood before she sold the home.
In June, Bracher was arrested on multiple charges, including the Possession of Meth with the Intent to Distribute and Smuggling Contraband into a Detention Facility.
A man who was picking up some things from Bracher's home in late January told officers Cheese Puff and another dog named Bella made a beeline for him and a baby. According to the report, pit bull 'Cheese Puff' snapped at the one-year-old baby while pit bull 'Bella' bit him on the leg.
Four months later on May 2, 2016, another report explains that Bracher's neighbor had to jump up on the hood of his car to get away from the dogs who ran on his property.
Later that month, Bella was euthanized for brutally attacking a four year old boy while he was playing with her puppies. The child had injuries to his face and arm and was hospitalized for days.
In this case, Bracher's friend, Benjamin Brown, lied to police about where the little boy, Avery Farmer, had been attacked. Police spent the weekend searching for a random pit bull that had allegedly attacked Avery at a yard sale. Brown's lie fell apart when the little boy told his father that he had been "playing with puppies" when he was attacked. Brown is the little boy's mother's live-in boyfriend and told police HE WAS TRYING TO PROTECT THE PIT BULL'S OWNER, KATRINA BRACHER.
As a result of Brown's lie to protect the pit bull and its owner, the little boy had to get a series of rabies shots.
Brown was arrested and charged with false reporting and child abuse.
After authorities found out that the pit bull belonged to Katrina Bracher, they seized it. Bracher signed Bella over to animal control to be quarantined and put down.
Note: If this pit bull Bella was deemed dangerous for the prior attacks, why wasn't she spayed? Most dangerous dog classifications REQUIRE this to be done. Why was Katrina Bracher allowed to keep an unsterilized dog, breed her and sell puppies???
"I just want everybody else to be safe and for this not to happen to anybody else's kid," Hill added.
Note: OK, so were the dogs deemed dangerous? What restrictions apply for that? If they were deemed dangerous based on the January incident, why weren't they seized in May when they were running loose and tried to attack the neighbor?
County ordinance only allows officials to confiscate an animal that has caused severe injury or death to a person or if the animal is already deemed dangerous and attacks or bites a person or animal without provocation.
Cheese Puff is being quarantined at animal control for ten days so officers can watch for any rabies symptoms. They will seek a dangerous dog designation for the pit bull. Bracher will be given an opportunity to appeal that ruling.
Note: So Cheese Puff the pit bull was never deemed dangerous for all the prior incidents. Why not? It tried to attack a baby in January.
News 13 called the listed number for Bracher but was unable to reach her for comment.
ARREST INFO:
Full name: Katrina Marie Bracher
Address: 3003 Allison Ave, Panama City Beach, FL 32408
Date of birth: March 2, 1995
Age at arrest: 21
Arrest Date: 05/31/2016
Arresting agency: Bay County, Florida
Charges:
- #1 DRUGS-POSSESSION – POSSESSION OF METH WITH INTENT TO SELL, MANUFACTURE, DELIVER
- #2 MARIJUANA - POSSESSION – NOT MORE THAN 20 GRAMS
- #3 IN POSSESSION OF NARCOTICS EQUIPMENT – AND OR USE
- #4 DRUGS-POSSESS – POSSESSION OF METH WITH INTENT TO SELL, MANUFACTURE, DELIVER
- #5 DRUGS-POSSESS – CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE WITHOUT PRESCRIPTION
- #6 SMUGGLE CONTRABAND – INTRODUCE INTO DETENTION FACILITY
- #7 NARCOTIC EQUIP-POSSESS – AND OR USE
Full name: KATRINA MARIE BRACHER
Alias: CATRINA MARIE BRACHER, CATRINA BRACHER
Race: WHITE
Sex: FEMALE
Date of Birth: 03/02/1995
Current age: 21
Hair Color: BROWN
Eye Color: BLUE
Height: 5′ 6″
Weight: 150 lb
Original Charges:
- #1 DRUGS-POSSESSION – POSSESSION OF METH WITH INTENT TO SELL, MANUFACTURE, DELIVER
- #2 MARIJUANA - POSSESSION – NOT MORE THAN 20 GRAMS
- #3 IN POSSESSION OF NARCOTICS EQUIPMENT – AND OR USE
- #4 DRUGS-POSSESS – POSSESSION OF METH WITH INTENT TO SELL, MANUFACTURE, DELIVER
- #5 DRUGS-POSSESS – CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE WITHOUT PRESCRIPTION
- #6 SMUGGLE CONTRABAND – INTRODUCE INTO DETENTION FACILITY
- #7 NARCOTIC EQUIP-POSSESS – AND OR USE
Current Status: ACTIVE
Supervision Type: PROBATION FELONY
Supervision Begin Date: 6/27/2016
Scheduled Termination Date: 6/26/2019
Looks like she took a plea agreement in which more than half the charges were dropped in exchange for her guilty plea.
She pleaded guilty to POSSESSION OF METHAMPHETAMINE, POSSESSION OF CONTROL SUBSTANCE/OTHER, and CONTRABAND, COUNTY DETENTION FACILITY. They dropped the most serious charge -- being a drug dealer. For this guilty plea, she was given just 3 years of supervised probation with NO jail time and of course no prison time. Wow, tells you what a pathetic justice system Bay County, Florida has. How much money did she make as a drug dealer, selling meth? And she gets busted and gets probation???
All she has to do is make sure she doesn't get arrested on any Misdemeanor or Felony charges in the next 2-1/2 years and then she can go back to cooking meth and dealing it out of her home. Oh yeah, and continue breeding vicious pit bulls.
Earlier:
- Florida: Four-year-old recovering from pit bull attack, authorities are looking for dog
- Florida: Police arrest little boy's mother's boyfriend Benjamin Brown after he lied about pit bull attack
- Florida: Katrina Bracher's vicious pit bull finally euthanized. Guess what, turns out she's a meth dealer. Is that why Benjamin Brown was at her house when the pit bull attacked four-year-old Avery Farmer?
- Florida: Court denies Benjamin Brown's request to move back in with child and mother after he lied about pit bull attack to child
- Florida: Eleven year-old boy attacked by pit bull; grandmother says it took four men to pull the dog off of him
Good Lord. Can we just put the idiot woman down along with her mauling dogs??!!
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