Two folks have been charged as the results of a weird incident earlier this 12 months during which 26 lifeless kittens have been discovered inside a freezer at a Fredericksburg house complicated.
Dwayne Brandon Corbin Jr., 21, of Fredericksburg, and Syrie Arianna Falvey, 20, of Spotsylvania, are each charged within the metropolis with 56 misdemeanor offenses, together with a number of counts of improper disposal of a lifeless companion animal and animal cruelty. Corbin can also be charged with quite a few associated offenses in Orange County, together with abandonment of animals and offering insufficient meals, care and shelter.
Spotsylvania Sheriff’s Maj. Troy Skebo stated county animal management officers went to the 2300 block of Cowan Boulevard within the metropolis on June 27 in response to complaints about urine seeping from an house right into a residence on a decrease ground. The Spotsylvania Sheriff’s Office handles animal-related complaints and investigations for Fredericksburg.
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Spotsylvania Deputy L.L. Dus wrote in an affidavit for a search warrant that along with discovering the lifeless kittens, areas of urine and feces have been all around the house. The house beneath had urine-soaked partitions.
A lifeless mouse and a lifeless hamster have been additionally within the freezer, Dus wrote, and two reside ferrets have been seized. The affidavit didn’t point out why the lifeless animals have been being saved.
Skebo stated the lifeless animals have been taken to an animal facility in Warrenton, the place necropsies have been carried out. Both suspects have been not too long ago charged and are free on bond.