CALIFORNIA -- It’s every Richards sister for themselves in a dog bite lawsuit where Kyle Richards is accusing Kim Richards of lying to her about getting rid of her pit bull after the dog attacked her daughter and others.
According to court documents obtained by The Blast, Kyle is demanding she be dismissed from a lawsuit filed by Kim’s former assistant and placing the blame for everything squarely on Kim.
Kim Richards and her Pit Bull Kingsley
Back in 2016, Paige Sanderson sued Kim and her sister Kyle over a pit bull attack. Sanderson claimed she went over to Kim’s home to dress for a “Real Housewives of Beverly Hills” promotional event.
Once she arrived at the condo and saw Kim’s pit bull Kingsley, Sanderson says she ran into the bathroom out of fear. Sanderson says Kim told her not to be worried and she came out of the bathroom … but then the dog attacked.
She claims Kingsley lunged at her, biting and holding on to her lower abdomen and crotch. The pit bull then tore off some of her clothes, Sanderson claims, and ripped out portions of her flesh.
Kim allegedly refused to call 911 unless her personal assistant told the responders that a stray dog bit her and not Kingsley.
Kay Rozario's injuries
Kyle was listed as a defendant because she owned the property where the attack took place.
Sanderson sued for unspecified damages for emotional distress and medical bills.
In the new filing, Kyle says the only reason she is named in the case is because she bought Kim the condo where the incident took place. Kyle claims she does not get paid rent by her sister.
She says Kim is free to live at the property as she pleases and has done so since she moved in there in December 2015. Kyle claims she has to obtain Kim’s permission before visiting the property.
Kyle points out that she was not present during the alleged dog attack. Further, she claims Kim never told her that Kingsley was living at the condo until she was sued by Sanderson.
Kyle says she did not permit or condone Kingsley being present at the home or living with Kim. She says she didn’t even visit her sister from the time she moved in until April 2016
She says she believed Kim had given away Kingsley in November 2014 because Kim told her the dog went to live with a trainer.
Kim's niece Alexia was hospitalized after
being attacked by her aunt Kim's Pit Bull
The reality star points out that Kim even said this on a “RHOBH” reunion special. The two allegedly did not have any conversations about Kingsley until Kyle was hit with the suit.
Kyle explains Kim’s dog bit her daughter Alexia which caused strife between them for some time, and understandably lead Kyle to believe her sister would not allow Kingsley back into her home.
She is asking the court to dismiss her completely from the lawsuit. The case is ongoing.
PIT BULL ALLOWED TO ATTACK AT LEAST FOUR PEOPLE
Kim has had a series of incidents with this Pit Bull: four people have claimed the dog attacked them, including Kyle’s daughter, Alexia, who was attacked and hospitalized in 2014.
Kay Rozario says she was in Kim's bedroom in March 2014 when she reached over the bed and Kingsley attacked her, biting through her hand all the way to the bone. The dog also went for her face but she blocked it with her arm, which was also injured.
Rozario told TMZ ... "Kim's first reaction was, 'Please don't tell anyone. I'll lose my show'."
Paramedics came and wanted to call animal control, but Rozario talked them out of it and said Kim would handle it.
NEW YORK -- A transient man and a woman have been charged with cruelty to animals after police say they failed to seek treatment for their dog’s broken leg while they were living in a tent at Dominicus Hanson Pines Park.
Jaime L. DeYoung, 29, and Christopher P. Murphy, 31, both of whom have a previous address in Somersworth, were each charged with a single misdemeanor count on Nov. 27, nearly three months after Rochester police officers observed the dog’s injury, according to Capt. Jason Thomas.
Thomas said officers were called to Hanson Pines on Aug. 29 to investigate a littering complaint. DeYoung and Murphy had been living for some time at the site where the complaint originated, according to police.
During the investigation, Thomas said the officer noticed the duo had a pit bull mix living with them and that the dog had difficult walking due to either an injury or deformation to its front right leg.
The incident report from that day states DeYoung and Murphy told the officer the dog, who was named Poppy, had the injury for approximately a week and that they had scheduled an appointment for a veterinarian to evaluate the injury.
According to Thomas, officers later determined DeYoung and Murphy allegedly lied about scheduling an appointment.
Rochester’s animal control officer took custody of the dog on Aug. 30, after which a vet determined the dog had a broken leg, according to Thomas. Thomas said DeYoung and Murphy surrendered the dog to the animal control officer.
“The charges brought forward allege that the two did nothing in a week’s time to relieve the dog from its suffering,” said Thomas.
According to police, DeYoung and Murphy stopped living at Hanson Pines on or before Aug. 31 and couldn’t be located once the cruelty to animals charges were filed.
They were considered wanted individuals and were formally taken into custody on Nov. 27 after Somersworth Police located them at Tri-City Tool Crib in Somersworth as part of a theft by unauthorized taking incident. Court staff said Tuesday that records only list DeYoung in that theft case, which is pending.
Following their arrest in the animal cruelty case, DeYoung and Murphy were each released on $1,500 personal recognizance bail. Both are scheduled to be arraigned in Rochester District Court at 8 a.m. on Jan. 8.
Poppy was highlighted on Cocheco Valley Humane Society’s Facebook page after the animal shelter took custody of the dog in September. The post states the dog, whose new name is Lucy, has found a new home. The post also states that the broken leg miraculously healed on its own after staff splinted it for a period of time, ultimately bypassing the intensive surgery or amputation that staff initially thought would be needed due to the severity of her fractures.
SEPARATE DRUG CASE
In a separate case, a Strafford County Superior Court grand jury indicted Jaime DeYoung in June 2016 on a class B felony count of possession of a controlled drug. In court paperwork, police allege DeYoung, who at the time was living on Beacon Street in Somersworth, possessed an undisclosed quantity of fentanyl in Somersworth on April 18, 2016.
Court records indicate that the prosecutor ultimately decided to drop the case. A related drug possession charge, related to heroin or crack, was also dismissed in the case, according to court documents.
MAINE -- Surveillance video and a police 911 tape released Friday under a public records request reveal a harrowing account of two pit bulls attacking a woman and her small dog in Winslow.
The release of the tapes come as authorities continue to investigate the disappearance of the dangerous dogs this week just minutes after the state’s high court upheld their death sentence.
DO YOU RECOGNIZE THESE MAULERS? DANIELLE JONES
HAS STOLEN THEM FROM THE SHELTER AND HIDDEN THEM
TO TRY TO PREVENT THEM FROM BEING EUTHANIZED.
In the video, obtained by police from a nearby business, Sharron Carey can be seen last year walking down Lucille Avenue in Winslow around 12:40 p.m. with her Boston terrier, Fergie Rose.
Two giant gray pit bulls sprint across the front yard and to the road from behind a home, viciously attacking the small dog as its owner, Sharron Carey, tries to fight them off with her hands.
The dogs then attacked Carey, seriously injuring her.
“The dog’s dead — oh, my God,” a 911 caller and witness who reported the attack is heard saying in a separate police audio tape.
The chilling surveillance video and tape from Aug. 30, 2016, were obtained Friday by the Morning Sentinel under a Freedom of Access Act request to the Kennebec County District Attorney’s Office.
The witness, a neighbor who has called police, frantically tells a dispatcher that pit bulls are attacking a woman and that she needs help.
“This is awful,” the caller cries, as the dispatcher asks her to tell Carey that help is on the way.
The neighbor, who repeatedly gasps and cries out, “Oh, my God,” throughout the tape, tells the dispatcher that people are trying to get the dogs off the woman and then says, “The owner is there … she can’t control them.”
The caller thought three dogs were mauling the small dog, but the third dog was later determined to not be involved in the attack.
The video tape shows the pit bulls’ owner, Danielle Jones, appearing from the side and going up the steps to her house. She turns around and simply stands there - as though she doesn't know what to do about her two Pit Bulls that are attacking a woman and tearing her beloved little dog into pieces.
The Pit Bulls can be seen latched onto the dog and thrashing it around the front yard and roadside.
Shortly thereafter, a police cruiser pulls up. Dogs are seen throughout the video, running around the lawn. Eventually, Jones leads one of the dogs into the house.
Two pit bulls in the attack were later declared dangerous by a court and ordered to be euthanized. Jones appealed the case and the Maine Supreme Judicial Court on Tuesday upheld that court ruling.
But the pit bulls, Kole and Bentley, remained nowhere to be found Friday, three days after Jones CLAIMED they had slipped their leashes and escaped as she was walking them outside the Webb Road animal shelter Tuesday afternoon.
Waterville police are investigating the case and Waterville police Chief Joseph Massey says it is doubtful the dogs actually slipped their leashes and are running loose.
“We’re still working on it and hopefully, we can come up with them,” Massey said Friday of the missing dogs.
The dogs had been held at the Humane Society Waterville Area animal shelter.
Michael Brown, president of the board of directors for the Humane Society Waterville Area, said Friday morning that he is not sure if there are rules regarding whether the owner of a dog deemed dangerous is allowed to come to the shelter and walk it outside, as Jones had apparently been allowed to do. Tuesday was not the first time Jones had come to walk the pit bulls — she had walked them outside the shelter on previous occasions, according to police.
“We’re looking into all those policies,” Brown said Friday morning. “I can’t tell you right now what the answer is to that, unfortunately. I know we’re looking into that.”
But Brown reiterated what he said Thursday about the Humane Society’s commitment to work with authorities to ensure the public and other animals are kept safely.
“As for the public safety, we’re going to work with the police departments and with the state of Maine to make sure we’re in compliance with any of those rules,” he said.
MAINE GOVERNOR PAUL LEPAGE BASICALLY CALLS THE PIT BULL OWNER, DANIELLE JONES, A LYING POS Gov. Paul LePage said in a phone conversation Friday that state officials are looking into the situation.
There’s “no question,” he said, that Jones knows where the dogs are and that she knew the court’s decision before she took them out of the shelter for a “walk.”
“I believe she’s on the lam with the dogs,” LePage said.
He also said he thinks Jones took the dogs out before Humane Society officials became aware of the court’s decision.
“She really was slick,” he said.
Winslow police Chief Shawn O’Leary says he suspects the dogs’ disappearance was a “coordinated effort.” Winslow police, he said, will work with Waterville police on the case with whatever they need.
O’Leary said that the town of Winslow will still have stray animals brought to the Waterville shelter, but if there is a situation involving a dangerous dog that needs to be taken to a shelter and there is a question about it, the animal will be taken to a shelter in Augusta. He said if changes in management and policy at the Waterville shelter do not change by 2018, Winslow will start having all animals taken to a different shelter.
Jones’ lawyers, Tom Page and Bonnie Martinolich, did not return calls Thursday and Friday seeking comment in the case.
Decisions by the court are normally published on the court’s website at 11 a.m. Tuesdays and Thursday. An employee in the clerk’s office said the decision in the dog case was posted as usual Tuesday and attorneys involved receive an email within minutes after the decision is posted.
The Kennebec County District Attorney’s Office received an email at 11:11 a.m. Tuesday, notifying officials in that office that the Supreme Judicial Court’s decision had been posted upholding the death sentence against the two pit bulls. Jones’ attorneys would have received that at the same time.
Waterville police first learned of the court decision around 12:30 p.m. and tried contacting the animal shelter, but couldn’t reach anyone. Jones, meanwhile, was allowed to walk the two dogs outside the shelter property sometime between 12:30-1 p.m.
Lisa Smith, executive director of Humane Society Waterville Area, did not return phone calls, texts or emails sent to her on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. Brown said Thursday that Smith would release a statement later that day, but she never did and Brown said on Friday he doesn’t know why.
Meanwhile, the Morning Sentinel also submitted Freedom of Information Act requests to both Waterville and Winslow police and the municipalities of Waterville and Winslow seeking any written communications with town and city officials and the Humane Society between Tuesday and Friday. Both municipalities reported on Friday they had no such communication with the organization.
Kennebec County District Attorney Maeghan Maloney said Friday that the order in the case says Jones has “ownership of the pit bulls but not the right to possession.”
Asked about the process taken in such cases, Maloney said that all criminal cases and investigations proceed the same way — police collect evidence and interview witnesses and if they think a search warrant is needed they apply for one and that is a process the district attorney’s office takes part in. If they find enough evidence to charge someone, they do so.
With some cases, if police are not sure, they will send a case to the District Attorney’s Office for review, which means they ask that office to make the first call, according to Maloney. If a charge is brought forward by police, the district attorney’s office can then read the case and decide to bring that charge or additional charges or no charge at all in the case, according to Maloney.
MAINE -- Local police chiefs say they doubt two dangerous dogs ordered by the court to be euthanized now are running loose in the area after their previous owner, Danielle Jones, told officials they escaped while she was walking them Tuesday afternoon outside an animal shelter.
One of those chiefs said he suspects the dogs’ disappearance was a “coordinated effort.”
The Maine Supreme Judicial Court upheld around 12:30 p.m. Tuesday a court order to euthanize the pit bulls declared dangerous because they had killed a Boston terrier, Fergie Rose, and seriously injured its owner, Sharron Carey, last year in Winslow.
The killer Pit Bulls, named Bentley and Kole, have been held at the Humane Society Waterville Area animal shelter on Webb Road.
Minutes after the Supreme Court decision Tuesday, Jones was walking the dogs near the shelter when, she CLAIMS, the dogs escaped their leashes and ran off into the woods.
Waterville police Chief Joseph Massey, who is investigating the case, said he thinks if two pit bulls were wandering in the city, police would have received calls from the public by now.
“I find that to be very doubtful since we’ve gotten no calls,” Massey said Thursday morning.
Winslow police Chief Shawn O’Leary went so far as to say he believes the dogs were deliberately taken from the shelter’s care because the Supreme Court upheld a decision to euthanize them.
O’Leary also said the incident has alarmed Winslow officials so much that they no longer will take animals to the Waterville shelter until changes are made at the facility.
“I don’t believe that they are loose, that they’re running through the woods,” O’Leary said of the dangerous dogs. “This was a coordinated effort.”
Asked if people found to be harboring the pit bulls would be charged criminally, Massey said it would depend on the circumstances. For instance, police would ask how they got the dogs and whether they knew there was a court order for the dogs to be euthanized when they received the dogs. If they answered “yes” to the questions, police would report that to the district attorney.
As to whether Jones would be charged if she were found to have the dogs, Massey said there is a special state statute that deals with violation of court orders, that this situation is unique, and the district attorney would be involved.
Michael Brown, president of the Humane Society Waterville Area’s board of directors, said Thursday that he is doing everything possible to help police investigate the case.
“At the end of the day, the public’s safety is our main concern,” Brown said. “We’re cooperating with all the people investigating the case in all ways possible, and our biggest concern is a safe resolution.”
Carey, the victim of the dog attack, has filed a civil lawsuit against Jones.
Jones said in a telephone interview Thursday morning from where she works, The Muddy Paw, on Bay Street in Winslow, that she was referring all calls to her lawyers and declined to comment on the missing pit bulls. She said she no longer owns The Muddy Paw.
"There’s a lawsuit being brought against me by Sharron Carey, so I’m not at will to speak to anybody; but my lawyers should be able to talk to you,” said Jones, who on Thursday provided the Morning Sentinel with photos of the two dogs.
Her lawyer, Tom Page, did not return a call seeking comment. Jones’ other attorney, Bonnie Martinolich, also did not return a call.
Lisa Smith, executive director of the Humane Society Waterville Area, did not return calls placed Thursday morning to both her cellphone and the shelter, nor did she respond to an email. Smith also did not respond to a phone message or text sent Wednesday and was not at the shelter late Wednesday afternoon. A shelter official on Monday told the Morning Sentinel that Smith was away and would return Wednesday this week.
Brown said Smith was going to release a statement Thursday about the case, but that never happened.
Kennebec County District Attorney Maeghan Maloney did not return an email immediately seeking comment about what her office’s role will be in the case, but Massey said once police determine where the dogs are, they will consult with the district attorney’s office.
“We’ll want to seize those dogs because the court ordered them euthanized and get them into a secure facility,” he said.
Massey said shelter officials knew Jones was walking the dogs Tuesday, and she had walked them on previous occasions. He said he did not know if Smith, the shelter’s executive director, was at the shelter that day.
It is not clear whether Jones knew about the Maine Supreme Judicial Court’s decision to uphold the euthanization when she walked the dogs Tuesday. The high court issued its decision upholding the euthanasia order around 12:30 p.m. Tuesday, and Jones took the two pit bulls for a walk near the Webb Road animal shelter between 12:30 and 1 p.m.
Massey said police are continuing to try to find the pit bulls.
“Unfortunately, when we contacted their owner, who was the last one to see those dogs, she refused to talk to us,” Massey said. “That has made it difficult to locate the dogs.”
He said that if the dogs were running loose, the concern would be that they might hurt people or other animals.
NEIGHBORS’ VIEW
In the neighborhood around Lucille Avenue where the two pit bulls killed the other dog and injured its owner, some residents on Thursday afternoon said they were concerned, while others said the facts of the case may not be completely clear.
Most, however, said that the recent “escape” of the dogs was probably a calculated effort by their owner, Jones, who lives on Lucille Avenue.
On Aug. 30, 2016, Sharron Carey was walking her Boston terrier, Fergie Rose, down Lucille Avenue near her home when pit bulls Bentley and Kole broke free from their yard at 12 Lucille Ave. The pit bulls attacked Carey and her dog. Fergie Rose died later that day and Carey was seriously injured.
Jones’ home is surrounded by a double fence that is supposed to contain the dogs. However, police previously told the Morning Sentinel that the dogs climbed up the first fence, breaking it, and then broke through the second fence, which wasn’t secured at the bottom.
Chris Rusnov, 65, said she didn’t even know the dogs existed until the attack last year. Rusnov lives on Bolduc Avenue, behind Lucille Avenue, close to Jones’ yard surrounded by the black fence.
Rusnov knows Carey, the woman who was attacked.
“I was pretty outraged at what happened,” she said. “To me, you don’t have dogs that are proven to be that sick. They shouldn’t be anywhere.”
Rusnov, like many others in the neighborhood, often takes walks, and she avoids walking near dogs that seem aggressive.
Another neighbor a few houses down from the site of the attack on Lucille Avenue said the owners should have euthanized the dogs on their own to be responsible, though she didn’t want to give her name.
“When I found out what happened, it made me sick,” she said. “We walked our dog to the corner over there all the time.”
Now the woman won’t walk her dog, which isn’t any bigger than Fergie Rose, near the site of the attack at all.
Gary Michaud, 63, said the two pit bulls never bothered him or his own dog, a large mastiff mix named Ripley.
While the attack was “pretty bad,” he said, it didn’t affect him. He agrees with the law requiring euthanization “to an extent,” he said, but added that in this case “you really don’t know what happened.”
Both Michaud and Rusnov said they don’t believe the dogs, now missing, ran off on their own while on a walk with Jones at the Humane Society Waterville Area.
“She should not get away with doing this,” Rusnov said. “I think she was calculated.”
While the dogs don’t appear to be back in Winslow, Rusnov said their disappearance still concerns her. “That’s just scary. Someone else is in danger now.”
SHELTER CONCERNS
Meanwhile, Winslow officials have notified the shelter that they no longer will take animals to the shelter until changes are made there. O’Leary said from now on, animals will be taken to the shelter in Augusta, which will cost the town additional money and places an extra financial burden on Winslow.
He said it is the shelter’s responsibility to ensure the pit bulls, which are the property of the state, are euthanized per the court’s order.
O’Leary said further that the town of Winslow pays more than $10,000 a year to the animal shelter to take stray animals and deal with situations such as this, and it is the town’s position that the current shelter administration did not follow through on its contract.
“If the shelter leadership and the management does not change by next year, we’ll be going somewhere else, which is going to be a huge loss of funding for them,” O’Leary said. “As a trustee of the town, we don’t ask a lot. This is a unique situation that went through two long court hearings.”
Further, O’Leary said, a lot of police resources are being placed on a case that never should have developed, when they are otherwise dealing with more serious crimes.
O’Leary said Winslow police will help Waterville police with whatever they need to investigate the case. Winslow’s work was completed when the lower court ordered the dogs were dangerous and needed to be put down, he said, and then Jones appealed the case.
Brown, the humane society president, said he did not want to jeopardize the police investigation and referred questions about the incident to Massey.
Brown said he met Wednesday with both Massey and O’Leary about the case “to make sure we’re doing all we can to help them solve this.”
“They are investigating, so I’d be more than happy to speak with you once this is finalized,” Brown said. “I’d rather have it come from them right now.”
After a feline distemper outbreak occurred at the shelter earlier this month, killing more than three dozen cats and kittens, Brown said Humane Society officials were working to review all shelter policies and procedures to ensure best practices are being used there to make sure animals are safe. The shelter closed during the outbreak, on Oct. 1, and reopened this past weekend.
Rest in peace, Fergie
On Thursday morning, he reiterated that stance.
“We’re working internally around protocol and procedure,” Brown said. “Internally, we’re doing the best to make sure all our policies and procedures protect the public and our animals.”
MAINE -- The Maine Supreme Judicial Court released its decision around 12:30 p.m. Tuesday upholding an order to euthanize two pit bulls declared dangerous in court, and minutes later they reportedly got loose.
Their owner, Danielle Jones, had been allowed by the Humane Society Waterville Area to take the two Pit Bulls for a walk between 12:30 and 1 p.m. Tuesday, according to police.
DANIELLE JONES' KILLER PIT BULLS
She returned to the shelter around 1 p.m. to tell officials there that the two dogs had gotten loose and run off into the woods.
Yeah, her own dogs just both happened to get loose. And they both happened to run away from her, their owner. She's is a liar - and these people at the shelter are complete idiots for ever having let her do anything other than view the dogs through a padlocked cage. It's their fault these Pit Bulls are missing - and we all know DANIELLE JONES IS HIDING THEM.
The pit bulls, named Bentley and Kole, were ordered euthanized after attacking a woman, Sharron Carey, and her dog, Fergie Rose, who were walking on Aug. 30, 2016, near Jones’ home in Winslow. The dogs killed the 10-month-old Boston terrier and seriously injured Carey.
Fergie Rose, killed by Danielle Jones' maulers
Police initially had trouble contacting Jones, but they found her around 3:30 p.m. Wednesday at her home.
Danielle Jones - REFUSING TO SAY A WORD - instead handed the detective a slip of paper that said “direct all questions to my attorney” and refused to speak further, according to Waterville police Chief Joseph Massey.
Winslow police Chief Shawn O’Leary said the incident seems “suspicious, to say the least.”
He’s also disappointed in the animal shelter staff for apparently allowing Jones to take the dogs out.
“I’m completely dumbfounded why the director would allow them to take the dogs off the property,” O’Leary said. “We feel that this is a serious issue, that two dangerous dogs are now out and about and … you know, this is putting a lot of resources into dealing with this situation. … I’m very disappointed in the management.”
Shelter Director Lisa Smith did not return a phone or text message seeking comment and was not at the shelter late Wednesday afternoon.
Jones couldn’t be reached by the Morning Sentinel at her business, The Muddy Paw Grooming Spa on Bay Street in Winslow, on which a sign said it was closed Wednesday.
The Morning Sentinel also attempted to reach Jones on Wednesday afternoon at her residence on Lucille Avenue, but no one answered the door. A number of dogs could be heard barking loudly within the house once the door was knocked on, though, and a woman wearing a black shirt that said “pit bull” later walked through the door and ignored a request for comment.
Police said they don’t know if Jones owned other dogs besides Bentley and Kole.
A judge in Augusta found that Jones had committed two civil violations of keeping a dangerous dog and ordered them both euthanized within 30 days. The order was stayed pending an appeal made by Jones, and the dogs have been held at the Waterville animal shelter at 100 Webb Road.
On Tuesday, the state’s highest court upheld the death ruling in the dogs’ case. In its decision upholding the euthanasia order, the Supreme Court said that “competent evidence in the record” supported the finding that the dogs had injured a person seriously.
District Attorney Maeghan Maloney said Tuesday the case was “about community safety. It’s about feeling safe to walk the sidewalks of our neighborhoods.”
Winslow police received news that the euthanization order was upheld about 12:40 p.m. Tuesday, O’Leary said, and contacted the shelter multiple times afterward about paperwork. But it wasn’t until the evening that the shelter told them that the dogs had gotten loose earlier in the day.
O’Leary said he’s disappointed in the shelter management, which didn’t tell police about the disappearance until 6:45 p.m. Tuesday — hours after the dogs were gone.
“That makes me very concerned and upset,” O’Leary said Wednesday.
Sharron Carey’s husband, Bill Carey, said by phone Wednesday evening they can’t comment on the latest incident as they pursue a civil lawsuit.
Sharron Carey has filed a civil lawsuit in Kennebec County Superior Court against Jones and the dogs’ co-owner, Brandon Ross, as well as against Danielle Doyon, of Waterville, owner of the home on Lucille Street.
Carey’s attorney, Steve Blackwell, of Lanham, Blackwell and Baber in Bangor, said the current issue is for law enforcement to handle, but said that Sharron Carey is the victim and didn’t want the dogs to harm anyone else.
“It’s very sad and no one wins here,” Blackwell said, adding that there may be some changes “in the way things are handled” at the shelter.
Maloney, the district attorney, said Wednesday that she’s interested in what the investigation finds, but she declined to comment on whether the latest incident could result in criminal charges.
Asked about issues concerning the shelter and the timeline of the dogs’ disappearances, she said, “Those are the questions that I want to have answered.”
Jones told shelter workers that the dogs broke free while she was walking them and ran into the nearby woods, according to Massey.
The dogs still would have their leashes and harnesses dangling from their collars, Jones reportedly told the animal shelter, but police have yet to hear any reports of loose dogs dragging their leashes.
“I really don’t know where the dogs are,” Massey said. “If they are running loose, I certainly would have some concerns.”
Another high-profile dangerous dog, Dakota the husky, also was held at the Humane Society Waterville Area shelter while the case was resolved.
Ultimately, Dakota was spared a euthanasia order after a court-ordered settlement sent the dog to live at least initially at a veterinary hospital with a boarding kennel and be trained by a canine behavior expert.
IF YOU KNOW WHERE DANIELLE JONES IS HIDING THESE TWO KILLER PIT BULLS, PLEASE CALL 911 AND REPORT IT!
