Jason Michael Thomas, 40, and Stacy Lynn Stephens, 38, both of the 400 block of Cypress Avenue, are accused of starving the two dogs, the criminal complaint says.
According to a criminal complaint, an officer responded to a home on Cypress Street where Thomas and Stephens were residing after another home on Cypress Avenue they lived in had been condemned.
The animals were found Dec. 20 by a codes inspector inside another Cypress Avenue residence owned by Thomas, according to the complaint filed with District Judge Kevin Price.
Johnstown police officers were familiar with the dogs from previous incidents at the two adjacent homes owned by Thomas, Officer Amber Noel wrote in the complaint.
When Thomas was picked up on a warrant on Nov. 8, he LIED and told police he had turned the dogs over to the Cambria County Humane Society. Officers pressed him for information, even offering help with placing the dogs, police said.
Neighbors also offered help, and Thomas yelled at a man who tried to feed the dogs through a window, the complaint says.
Officers said the room in the home where the dogs were found in was in "deplorable conditions," according to the complaint.
Both dogs were found lying on blankets on the second floor of the home, which had animal feces in every room, police said.
The dogs' bodies were taken to a veterinarian and the cause of death was deemed to be from starvation.
Felony charges of animal cruelty were filed against both Thomas and Stephens. They also face summary counts of animal abandonment and failure to obtain dog license and failure to get the dogs’ rabies shots.
(Tribune Democrat - Dec 27, 2017)
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