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Nov. 8, 2023, 2:46 am ET
Two Wisconsin landlords who admitted to stealing considered one of their tenant’s dogs following a lease dispute is not going to face any jail time even because the canine stays lacking a yr after courtroom proceedings started.
On Halloween 2022, Susan Haas, 64, and her sister Sarah Engeseth, 62, took Linnea Sandlin’s rat terrier named Simon, after the landlords claimed the canine violated the property’s lease phrases.
The sisters, each discovered responsible of misdemeanor Intentional Dognapping, Party to a Crime, have been ordered to participate in a primary offender’s program by Dane County Judge Ellen Berz as a part of a plea deal, versus jail time.
“Simon, he was like my child,” Sandlin informed the Dane County courtroom, according to WKOW. “I miss him and love him so much. He never can be replaced.”
Haas and Engeseth gained possession of the pooch after they confirmed up at John Isaacson’s office, who was dogsitting for Sandlin whereas she appeared for a greater place for the canine to remain as a result of she was conscious the canine wasn’t allowed at her rental property.
Isaacson stated the lady confirmed him an legal professional’s letter that claimed they’d the authority to convey the canine to a shelter, which he reluctantly complied with and handed Simon over, a call he says he has regretted since.
“He’s gone because of me,” Isaacson informed the outlet in February. “I didn’t fight for him. I did what I thought I should have done when they flashed the paper at me.”
After getting management of the canine, Haas says she was going to give up him to the native Dane County Humane Society however Simon as a substitute jumped out the again of her SUV whereas parked exterior of the ability and ran off.
Haas claimed in courtroom that she made no effort to seek for the canine after it ran off.
The Dane County District Attorney’s workplace charged each Haas and Engelseth with felony get together to a theft again in December, however a month in a while January 30, Assistant District Attorney Paul Humphrey introduced the fees can be lowered to misdemeanors, courtroom paperwork present.
“It is usual for first offenders who have taken responsibility for the crime to have an opportunity for deferred prosecution,” Humphrey stated, defending the choice.
“I feel the punishment against them is wrong,” the dogsitter Sandlin stated. “It went from a felony to a misdemeanor and now it’s probably going to be nothing at all in the end.”
“I often wonder where the justice is in this,” Sandlin stated. “I will always be the victim.”
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