FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. – The spouse of a person facing more than 180 charges in reference to a puppy mill authorities stated they found after a drug raid is now going through roughly the identical variety of costs herself.
Authorities stated Sean Christopher Brodnax, 29, was working an unlawful puppy mill and trafficking a major quantity of medicine at a home he shared along with his spouse, Danielle Palladino, and their kids.
Authorities arrested Palladino, additionally 29, on Thursday on a bunch of animal cruelty costs, together with training veterinary medication and not using a license.
Puppy mill allegations
At round midday on Sept. 13, Davie police, Broward County deputies, and brokers with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms raided Brodnax’s trailer, situated at 490 SW 132nd Ave. within the Western Hills Manufactured Home Community. Surveillance video from a neighbor’s home reveals Brodnax combating an officer after he was taken into custody.
Inside, officers reportedly discovered the medicine they have been in search of: a trafficking quantity of fentanyl drugs and roughly a kilo of cocaine powder blended with fentanyl. But additionally they discovered about 25 French bulldog-pit bull mixes, a lot of which have been in excessive misery.
According to an arrest report, officers first encountered three of the dogs on a screened-in patio. Police stated one of many dogs, a feminine tri-color English Bully combine, was “clearly in distress” with “explosive diarrhea and extreme trouble breathing, possibly on the verge of a heat stroke.”
None of the dogs had correct meals and water. They stated Broadnax did present them a fan, however it didn’t maintain them cool.
Police stated officers discovered extra dogs inside.
“Aside from the issue of the respondents, who are both residents of this trailer, keeping dogs in inhumanely small cages, the cages themselves were also unsanitary, filled with feces, smelled, and had no bedding on the floor of the cages,” Broadnax’s arrest report states.
Palladino faces decide; relative defends couple
Facing a Broward County decide Friday, Palladino’s lawyer made a case for Palladino that the police claims have been exaggerated.
“I don’t see any difference these dogs were kept from how they were kept at a pet store,” her lawyer stated. “This is just over aggressive by the sheriff’s office and just piling on.”
A girl who stated she’s a member of the family of the couple defended them exterior their Davie trailer Friday.
“He has hundreds of trophies,” the girl stated. “He takes good care of those dogs. This is ridiculous.”
She additionally denied allegations of drug trafficking.
“That has nothing to do with them,” the girl stated. “We don’t know how that got in this house.”
“Every single neighbor talked about this house being a drug house,” Local 10 News reporter Andrew Perez requested. “Every single one.”
“That’s not what’s going on that’s just because he deals with dogs and everybody is involved with dogs,” she replied.
She stated the home is a household home and that kids are concerned. She additionally stated it’s a giant household desperate to show this case in court docket.
“I don’t care what that neighbor says, that neighbor, that neighbor, it looks like that because there’s dogs involved,” the girl stated. “So whatever’s going on, we will be proving that that’s not true.”
Palladino was given a bond of greater than $130,000 on 170 costs and remained held within the Broward Main Jail as of Friday afternoon.
Brodnax remained held at Broward’s Joseph V. Conte Facility on the identical bond as of Friday.
The Broward Sheriff’s Office has filed a proper petition to maintain the seized dogs. If that goes by way of, the dogs shall be adopted out.
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