[NYCFarmboy]

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PETA workers face 25 felony counts in North Carolina
By DARREN FREEMAN, The Virginian-Pilot
© October 15, 2005 | Last updated 11:24 PM Oct. 14


WINTON, N.C. — The cats and dogs two PETA employees have been charged with euthanizing and dumping in an Ahoskie garbage bin were killed by injections of pentobarbital, a barbiturate commonly used to put down animals, according to new warrants issued and served on Friday.

Additionally, the two employees were charged with three felony counts of obtaining property by false pretenses. The charges allege that they euthanized three cats from an Ahoskie veterinarian after promising to find the animals new homes, according to the new warrants.

PETA employees Andrew B. Cook, 24, of Virginia Beach, and Adria J. Hinkle, 27, of Norfolk, were served with warrants on 22 felony charges of animal cruelty and the three felony charges of obtaining property by false pretense in court on Friday.

A grand jury is expected to consider formal indictments Oct. 31, Assistant District Attorney Donnie Taylor said.

The new animal cruelty charges replaced 31 previous animal cruelty charges, which were dismissed.

The new warrants now include more information, such as descriptions of animals investigators found, the causes of death and – in some warrants – photographs of the dead dogs.

The new information was added to clarify the charges, which previously did not have such information as the cause of death, Taylor said.

The two employees are still charged with eight misdemeanor counts of illegal disposal of dead animals and one count of trespassing.

Both have been released on $35,000 bail, and PETA is paying their legal fees. PETA suspended Hinkle for 90 days and did not discipline Cook.

Police began investigating this summer after carcasses of cats and dogs in plastic bags were found in a supermarket garbage bin in Ahoskie every Wednesday for four consecutive weeks. At least 80 animals were found.

Officers say that on June 15 they followed a van after it left Bertie County’s animal shelter, then staked out the garbage bins and arrested two PETA employees.

The officers found 18 dead dogs in a bin and 13 other animal carcasses in the van, which was registered to PETA.

PETA had been picking up animals in northeastern North Carolina since 2001, when a caller informed the group of poor conditions in shelters, according to a written apology PETA President Ingrid Newkirk sent to Bertie County officials.

Bertie County and Northampton County officials and one Ahoskie veterinarian said they believed that adoptable animals would find new homes, while sick, injured and wild animals would be euthanized.

Newkirk has since said that dumping the animals into trash bins violates PETA policy.

PETA typically euthanizes animals in Norfolk and cremates the carcasses, Newkirk said in a June 17 press conference.

Newkirk said at the time that the animals found in North Carolina had likely been given a lethal injection of a barbiturate that PETA is licensed to use.

Bertie and Northampton officials cut ties to PETA pending trial.

The counties are now euthanizing animals without help from PETA.




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gee... isn't that nice... counties can now kill animals without the "help" of PETA.

LOL oy vey these looney activists and their lunatic causes.

[Pendergast]

It's nice to see a State diversifying its activities nowadays. Maybe this will turn into a profitable legal business now!

[goMac]

Why is it that most threads started by a conservatives here in these forums starts with a news article that talks about something that only a few people have done, and then ends with a broad blanket statement that incorrectly implies a large group of people all share the same believes?

Seriously, are you guys political debaters, or high school drama queens?

[NYCFarmboy]

Originally Posted by goMac

Why is it that most threads started by a conservatives here in these forums starts with a news article that talks about something that only a few people have done, and then ends with a broad blanket statement that incorrectly implies a large group of people all share the same believes?

Seriously, are you guys political debaters, or high school drama queens?

What puzzles me on this one is what on earth PETA thinks they are achieving by doing this sort of thing?

[production_coordinator]

Originally Posted by goMac

Why is it that most threads started by a conservatives here in these forums starts with a news article that talks about something that only a few people have done, and then ends with a broad blanket statement that incorrectly implies a large group of people all share the same believes?

Seriously, are you guys political debaters, or high school drama queens?

Why is it that most threads started by a liberals here in these forums starts with a news article that talks about something that only a few people have done, and then ends with a broad blanket statement that incorrectly implies a large group of people all share the same believes?

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Side Note: It also says volumes when PETA is paying their legal fees and not removing the people from the organization. IMHO, that sounds like they agree with what the have done.

[NYCFarmboy]

I still am wondering what on earth government officials in NC were thinking licensing a known terrorist group to do this.

strange.

[Pendergast]

Originally Posted by NYCFarmboy

I still am wondering what on earth government officials in NC were thinking licensing a known terrorist group to do this.

strange.

I think you are a drama queen.

Get your furs! Quick!

[Uncle Skeleton]

Originally Posted by NYCFarmboy

I still am wondering what on earth government officials in NC were thinking licensing a known terrorist group to do this.

strange.

If you can save tax dollars by off-loading a menial task to a volunteer you usually do it. I don't understand why the thing PETA got caught for was cutting corners instead of something like trying to release the animals to the wild, but I'm not surprised the county allowed PETA to make the county's job easier.

A lesser known part of PETA's agenda is to end all pet ownership, so I'm also surprised they're volunteering to contribute to pet ownership in general.

[Railroader]

Originally Posted by goMac

Why is it that most threads started by a conservatives here in these forums starts with a news article that talks about something that only a few people have done, and then ends with a broad blanket statement that incorrectly implies a large group of people all share the same believes?

Seriously, are you guys political debaters, or high school drama queens?

Replace "conservative" with "anyone" and your point is valid.

Oh wait, weren't you just doing the same thing you accuse "them" of?

[RIRedinPA]

I didn't want to read every reply on this thread but why is PETA killing animals?

[NYCFarmboy]

Originally Posted by RIRedinPA

I didn't want to read every reply on this thread but why is PETA killing animals?

PETA is killing animals that no one wants because PETA views it as acceptable for themselves to kill animals, and dump them in a dumpster somewhere, but not for others to do the same.....to build publicity for fundraising I suppose, and for darker motives...

this way PETA gets the publicity they need to raise money from their duped supporters, as they obviously don't care anything about helping animals.... only about publicity and fundraising from the gullible.

What really alarms me about this case is that PETA is seeking these licenses to get these death inducing drugs from the government for use in other terrorist activities they support, including militant Veganism and the terrorist group Animal Liberation Front which PETA publicy supports, which has a stated policy of assasination/murder of those who oppose their radical animal rights agenda.

PETA/ALF has warped into a cult of death that boggles the mind.

For them it is a logical step to go from attacking someone physically for wearing a mink coat to targeting for assasination a farmer who slaughters cattle for beef.

Like so many bizarre groups I think personally they have went so far nutso that they have lost any credibility they may have once had because they have went to such bizarre extremes, such as exampled by this bizarre case of PETA activists killing puppies.

It is just so strange.... I can't think myself of how this case helps PETA, but for some reason they think it does.

[Macrobat]

The reason PETA was allowed to collect these animals is because of a campaign they (PETA) started here claiming (without any proof whatsoever) that vets were supplying these "unwanted" animals to reseach and testing facilities.

[rambo47]

Originally Posted by NYCFarmboy

What puzzles me on this one is what on earth PETA thinks they are achieving by doing this sort of thing?

Ah, we get to the crux of the matter: never use PETA and thinking in the same sentence. They specialize in knee-jerk reactions and irrational, mindless drivel. Ignore them, they're mostly harmless™.