Buster, the stolen cat returned to shelter, couple charged with larceny
by Maiya Crews
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Craven County NC —
After a number of Facebook posts obtained a whole lot of shares, a stolen cat from the Colonial Capital Humane Society Animal Shelter, has now been returned. The future nonetheless hangs within the steadiness for the couple accused of stealing him.
It has been an extended 48 hours for the employees right here on the shelter, but additionally for the suspects’ who say the motion was taken out of impulse.
Wednesday afternoon, video from a Ring doorbell, caught this couple walking proper out the door with a one-year-old cat named Buster. Employees say there have been two employees members on responsibility that day when the couple visited the shelter. They say they checked on the couple a number of occasions, however they nonetheless managed to sneak out the door.
Stephanie Mills is the Vice President of the non-profit and says she couldn’t discover Buster wherever throughout her nightly routine.
“When I started looking in cupboards, and cabinets and even lifted ceiling tiles, I looked into other rooms, and it just dawned on me “he’s not here.” And on the similar time that I spotted that he’s not on this building is once I bought the textual content message saying, “he’s been stolen,” says Vice President Stephanie Mills.
After realizing Buster was lacking, they reached out to each the group and the Craven County Sheriff’s Office for assist in figuring out the 2 suspects.
Facebook posts of the state of affairs obtained over 600 shares, reaching folks like Arnie Slutsky, who acknowledged that the couple lived in his boating group, and shortly knowledgeable the shelter.
Slutsky calls it deed, whereas employees members are calling him a hero.
“Uh I don’t find out about hero. I’d hope that anyone on this position would do the identical actual factor as I did. I’m liking it, I’m getting numerous hugs,” says Arnie Slutsky.
The couple at the moment are going through misdemeanor larceny costs and can seem in court docket subsequent month.
News 12 spoke to them over the telephone, and so they say one in all them misplaced their job as a result of incident. They need the group to know that they don’t seem to be dangerous folks and so they’ve by no means carried out something like this earlier than.
The couple says they turned themselves in, donated to the shelter and want to undertake Buster.
The shelter has not confirmed if they’ve obtained the donation and say as of proper now, they want a little bit of time.
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