Convicted horse abuser held for alleged parole breach
A human being convicted of 145 counts of Equus caballus cruelty inward Nebraska has been arrested for breaching a court-imposed ban on keeping animals.
Goshen County government arrested Jason Meduna, 46, final calendar week for parole violation later allegedly existence flora inward possession of animals, including horses.
Meduna was convicted of brute cruelty inward Jan 2010. The guess inward the illustration who jailed Meduna, Leo Dobrovolny, imposed an monastic enjoin which banned him from possessing, owning or living alongside animals for thirty years.
Meduna served almost nineteen months inward jail earlier his release.
Captain Bryan Morehouse, of the Goshen County Sheriff’s Department told the Star-Herald: “No allegations of abuse had been made. But, he did accept animals, including horses, inward his possession.”
Authorities said Meduna was living inward Lingle, Wyoming, at the fourth dimension of his most recent arrest for the alleged probation violation.
The offending that resulted inward Meduna’s convictions for Equus caballus cruelty centred on his 3-Strikes Ranch inward Morrill County, Nebraska.
Meduna had promoted the ranch every bit existence a haven for mustangs.
Its website described it every bit a “Mustang outpost … a habitat to hundreds of mustangs from all over the USA … a natural surroundings for wild horses to piece of employment on the opened upward prairies of the Sand Hills.”
Some of the wild horses captured past times the USA Bureau of Land Management that were non adopted later 3 attempts – called 3 strikers – were sent to Meduna at 3-Strikes Ranch.
Authorities too equine welfare groups removed to a greater extent than than 200 horses from the property. They became known every bit the “Nebraska 200”.
The animals were legally surrendered to Equus caballus rescue groups Habitat for Horses too Lifesavers Foundation inward an understanding co-ordinated past times the Morrill County Sheriff’s office.
“This was 1 of the worst equine fail cases we’ve always seen,” the Humane Society of the United State’s manager of equine protection, Keith Dane, said later the jury verdict inward the case.
“While at that spot is no restitution that tin brand upward for the loss of life too severe suffering at the hands of this brute abuser, nosotros are glad the jury’s verdict recognised the cruelty inflicted past times Meduna.
“Hopefully, this illustration volition transportation a rigid message that this kind of brute abuse volition non larn unpunished.”
The monastic enjoin had assisted police pull enforcement too other Equus caballus welfare groups alongside the removal of to a greater extent than than 215 animals from Meduna’s ranch.
When the belongings was raided, mustangs were flora to live on living inward crowded, filthy pens. The horses were severely emaciated too were suffering from overgrown hooves too other untreated medical conditions.
In improver to the alive animals, to a greater extent than than 75 Equus caballus carcasses were flora on the property.
Meduna had acquired most of the animals from the Bureau of Land Management, roughly for every bit piddling every bit $US10.
The animals were wild mustangs too burros rounded upward through the bureau’s wild Equus caballus administration programme.
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